The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1885-07-23
GENERAL GRANT DEAD.

Gregor, New York, at 5 O'Clock this
morning. be was born at Point Pleas
ant, Ohio, April 27, 1922. and was
therefore in his Gath year. The Ameri-
can Cyclopedia states that his name
was Hiram Ulysses, but his appoint
ment as cadet to West Point in 1889
was blunderingly made out Ulysses S.,
and so it had to remain. He graduated
in l843, served in the Mexican war,
and was breveted a captain for valiant
conduct at the battle of Chapultepec.
In 1858 he was commissioned full cap
tain, and the next year resigned. In
1861, at the outbreak of the Civil War,
he was appointed Colonel of the 2lst
regiment of Illinois volunteers, and was
shortly afterwards promoted to Briga-
der G. General of volunteers. In Sep
TENDER, 1861, he seized Paducah, at
the mouth of the Tennessee river, and
Smithland, at the mouth of the Cum.
berland, and on November 18th fought
the battle of Belmont. In February,
1862, he started from Paducah with a
force of $4,000 men, aided by feet of
gun.boats, to capture Forts Henry and
Donelson, which he succeeded in doing,
and he was Immediately commissioned
Major. General of volunteers, and took
command of an expedition up the Ten
nessee. A large part of his force was
surprised by the Confederates under
General Albert S. johnson, at Pitts
burgh Landing, and routed, but Grant
reformed his lines, and the rest of
his army coming up in the night, the
battle was renewed on April 7th, and
the Confederates, defeated, Withdrew,
to Corinth. Grant was then made Com.
mander of the Army of the Tennessee,
and his forces constituted the Thir-
teenth Army Corps. After unsuccess.
full movements against Vicksburg from
the north, he moved his army down
the west side of the Mississippi, and
laid siege to the city, which General
Pemberton surrendered with about
q, 600 prisoners on July 4, 1863.
Grant was thereupon promoted to the
rank of Major. General in the regular
army, and placed in command of the
military division of the Mississippi.
He defeated General Bragg, and the
grade of Lieutenant. General was re.
vived for him, and in March 1854 he
assumed command of the armies of the
United States. With nearly 700, 900
men under arms, he planned two cam.
paigns against vital points in the Con-
federacy, one under his own direction,
against Richmond; the other under
General Sherman, against Atlanta,
Grant began the movement against
Richmond, in May, 1864. with lao, 600
men; but General Lee fooled his at.
tempt to take Richmond by taking the
offensive and encountering him in a
series OF battles, his losses from May 3
to June Is being 54,55l, while Lees
We're about $1,000. In April, 1865,
Richmond was evacuated, and Lee re.
treated, followed by Grant, who forced
his surrender at Appomattox Court
House. This ended the war; after
which Grant established his headouar.
ters at Washington, and was commits
stoned General of the Army-a rank
especially created for him.
In May, 1868, General Grant was
nominated for President at the Repub.
iican National Convention at Chicago,
and at the election carried twenty.six
States. and received PA electoral votes.
against so for seymour. At the Re.
publican National Convention held in
Philadelphia in 1872, he was renomi.
mated. and at the election he received
26S electoral votes, and popular ma.
jority of 1891 over Greeley. In
1876 an attempt was made to give him
the nomination for President for a third
term without success, and another and
last effort was made to make him
third term President in 1880, when
Conkling led the notorious LOG, in the
Republican Convention at Chicago.
One OF the last acts of the last Congress