The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-08-13

swollen Tennessee, when Beauregard and Buckn
with 10000 troops attacked Grants army, and for
first day drove 1T back, till defeat and capture star
it in the face, but that might Buel's Army came L
and on the morrow Grant gave the country the vi
tory of shiloh.
From that battle till early in '6S he was in col
mand of the Department of the Mississippi wi
Rosecranz, Sherman and Ord as his leutenants, al
with numerous small affairs and preparations f
the opening of the Mississippi, the time went on.
Rosecranz fought the battles of Iuka and Corint
and Grant then found Vicksburg standing in h
way, before he could cut the COnfederacy IN two,
very Gibraltar.
sherman had tried TO take it and failed. Tie be
Southern General then living (outside of Lee) w
within reach of Vicksburg (Gen. Jos. E. Johnston
and they felt the city was impregnable. Four diffe
ent ways tried to get army below Wick
| burg-and failed. At last the plan adopted-th
| succeeded in getting Grants army below and in IL
the city, and after the battles of Port Gibso
| Raymond, Champion Hills and Big Black, with Pen
| berton in Vicksburg and DO. Johnston in his rea
| Grant gathered his forces around the doomed cf
and sat down TO the sege, for to take it by assam
was impossible.
| Then for weeks our lines drew nearer and nearer
we drove them from line of rifle pits back to
other, till around miles of line, the rebel works an
ours close, talked with each other, of til
| certain end. And the 4th of July, '63, Grant
army marched into Vicksburg and $1,000 Confederat
soldiers laid down their arms, and with that victor
the 81 eat river again rolled free to the Gulf.
While the gSouth was yet stunned by the fall c
their stronghold Grant sent Sherman after Johnston
to jackson, and Frank Heron up the Yazoo to Yazo
City, to Benton and to Canton and the last Confed
crate army driven from that part of Mississippi
| Then the army went down the river it had opened
| to New Orleans, where in September, 63, at tn
| grand review, Grant thrown by afrghtene
horse and badly hurt. In October, 63, Grant went
Chattanooga, and took command. Longstreet an
| Bragg strongly entrenched at Lookout Noun
| tain, Chattanooga and Mission Ridge, and on Nov
3d. 9th and 25th, fought the battles of Chat
tanooga, Lookout Mountain and Mission Ridge, driv
ing Bragg and the whole Confederate army beyont
the Chickamauga. These three battles rather on
battle in three parts, make the grandest battle
of the Grant had under him, Thomas, Sherman
and Hooker. There was fought Hooker's 'batt
above the Clouds; and the long lines of the severa
corps pressed slowly into the foot of Mission Ridge
Grant watching from Orchard Knob, when he saw
the time was come, sounded the order to charge al
along the line, by firing six cannon at interval:
of two seconds And the long blue line starts for the
top of Mission Ridge. Sheets of flame baptize them
showers of lead pour into them; and as they clint
slowly up the steep, it looked from Orchard Knot
like long slow-moving worm fence, each regiment
marking panel and at the point toward the hill the
regimenta flags. Flag after flag is down as the color
bearers die is down, then up other men ready
to die to put that banner up and the line goes to-
ward the top the face of shreking shells and hiss
ing balls, with death marking every step-death be-
hind, and shoulder to shoulder, and ahead of them
but the colors that had waved over Pea Ridge and
Stone River, and Vicksburg and Shiloh-were borne
through all the buzzing swarms of bullets-for min
utes that seemed like weary monfhs-to the bloody,
slippery top, where the brayest might have been
proud follow tn e hindmost of that line; and so
Grant with grand leutenants and armies of heroes,
won another victory.
In March. 1864, he made Lieutenant General
and given command of all the armies. He went east
and took immediate command of tie Potomac army, to
crush Lee and gave Sherman charge of whipping 10.
Johnston. In May, '64, he crossed the Rapidan and
then followed the Wilderness, where stern death
reaped harvest for days, and Spottsylvania, and
Petersburg and Richmond-with scores of battles,
every day battle and every the ground
ill at last the life hammered out of the Confed
eracy, and at Appomattox the Rebellion died.
Among all the great and gallant generals the people
chose to honor. none stood so high as Grant. Con-
gress created for him the new rank of full General
the people gave him elegant houses in Washington
and Philadelphia. They feasted him and finally gave
him the Presidency. Friends raised him an immense
fund that his future might not be vexed with the
cares of money making.
As General he was remarkable in always selecting
the right men for every wo k. but President he
was Out of The field his genius fitted him for-and
lected many men who made mistakes themselves and
gave him mistaken advice.
While he earning his way to The head of the
armies, think of the other great American soldiers
then in their prime-Thomas and Sherman, McClel-
Ian and Meade, Rosecranz and Sheridan, Hooker and
Hancock, Candy and Kearney. Backed by no wealth,
for all his family were poor; by no family influence,
for they were humble; by political power, for he
and his family had always been Democrats; how did
it happen?
Many of the worlds really great men-like Fred
srick and Wellington-by accident of birth had
greatness thrust upon them, and were large enough
fill the place fate gave them but there were also
he Napoleons and Kossuths and Grant-who climbed
% the lap of fame where other men seemed Graded.
Hoy do l..
Vela?
The secret the roses sweetness, the sunsets
glory, and the grandeur of the storm-that is the
secret of genius and of power.
What was seen was quiet. plain, reticent man
Who never was Jealous of others victories, back
ward in speaking their praises who never made the
slightest struggle to make people acknowledge his
but who went straight ahead-doing his
appointed work. After his eight years of the Presi
lency were passed. he went abroad.
He then was simply private American citizen,
With wealth to invest, favors TO bestow, and
title to attract-but that triumphal journey round
he world-admiring thousands in every land headed
" the nobest and the greatest-hasen to greet the
,reat soldier-for could he be private citi
en. Henceforth he belonged to the world and to
history.
He went through the monarchies of the Old World
the very incarnation of American ideas. plain
nd simple man of the people before the he
While dining with Kings and Emperors, the modest,
npretending still.
Too great 10 be little in anything he can not be
allied par iran.
Washing ION put Jefferson and Hamilton, the lead
OF the opposing parties of that day both in his
abinef, and Grant The first President elected after
he put two ez-Confederate officers in his Cab
net.
When armed Rebellion died, he felt he had helped
not only The body but the soul of the union,
nd while in war, unconditional surrender his
MOTTO, he then said LET have peoce.t
And as his great life neared lis close, like Keno
hon and Caezar, he thought to write the history of
he battles he had fought and the victories he had
And his last battle with the great conquer
of ALL Death only to hold him back till he reached
he end of his book.
And of that struggle, happen to know more than
gotten into the press for his private stenograph
T and confidential clerk, Noble E. Dawson, touched
lbows with me from Vicksburg to the end-he car
led the banner and the flag of the 18th Iowa.
And there from Mt. McGregor's Top the great Lead
looked his last over the land he loved so WELL and
i'd much to save. Hardly had lights out" sound
d from MI. McGregor, till he heard the reveille in
he morning of the Camp beyond.
In his deaih, America is one family, Buckner and
%. johnson stand weeping by his coffin, they help
sherman and Sheridan bear it to the grave.
"He has been mourned, as brave men mourn the
brave;
And wept, Nations weep their cherished dead,
With bitter, but proud tears; aud DER his head,
The eternal flowers, whose root is in the grave,
rhe flowers of fame are beautiful and green.
Mingle, Bells, along the Hudson's slope
With your deep toll-a sound of faith and hope;
Wave chee lily still-O banner half way down,
rom thousand masted lakes, and steepled town
.et the strong organ, with its loftiest swell,
light the proud sorrow of the land, and tell
That the brave sower saw his ripened grain,
East and West! North and South land twain
70 more, forever: has he lived in vain,
Who, priest of freedom, made ye one?
Let the bells be tolled!
And deeper knell in the heart be knoed,
And the sound of sorrowing anthems rolled,
from the East to the golden cross:
And volleying cannon thunder his loss
lie knew their voices of old
Tor many time in the sunny cline
lis soldier ear has heard them boom
victory-bellowing doom.
Hush! the dead march walls in the peoples
ears;
Che dark crowds move, there sobs, and tears,
rhe black earth yawns the mortal disappears:
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
lie is gone, who seemed so great,
Zone Int nothing can bereaye him