The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-04-17
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a Concise Biographical sketch 90 -
OF the Great Military Cb,a,4s- Nie

scotch. In 1923 his parents removal y ~
town., o., where his boyhood was r..soa
entered West Point military acade,ov : ,oao
his name originally was Hiram mvasaa
he appointment was blunderingly made M
ses s., and 80 it had to remain. The st,d..-
winch he showed most proficiency dur,no IL.
course at the academy was mathemato.
graduated IN 1S43 at the age of q years rann
ing 2lst in a class of SO, and was made 49,.
second lieutenant of infantry, and attaches
supernumerary lieutenant Of the fourth reoi-
ment which was stationed on the Missour
frontier.
In 1910 the regiment was orderd to Tavas
and Grant was commissioned as a fuIl l;or.ou
ant He first saw blood shed at palo .lt.
May 9Th, 1916. He took part in every b.t,a
OF the Mexican war. After the battle Of M
no gel nay he was appointed first l~ieutenan.
Tor his gallantry and was breveted captain -. ~
his conduct at Chapultepec. After the :
ture OF the city of Mexico, he with his redP;
ment was stationed at Detroit. -osf
In 1915 ne married Julia L. Dent, daupbt.r
or a merchant of st Louis and sister of ono 7.
his classmates. In 1852 he ACCOMPANIES ~
regiment to California and Oregon, and in 1SsS
was commissioned full captain. In lSA 49,
signed and moved to a farm near 81 Ion;S
There his daughter Nellie and one of his son.
fred were born. He subsequently remoysd
to st. Louis where he fought the wolf S,o,u
the door, being unable to obtain empIovmsn.
In 1860 he moved to Galena, H., where his
father was engaged in the leather trsds
When the civil war broke out. Can't Crane
who was then 80 years old and the father ofl
children, the eldest OF whom was II! Was
cn9seh TO command a company of volunteers
/ with which ha noarohaIf 70
he acted as mastering officer and ON June ~
1901, he was commissioned colonel. ioined
his regiment at Nation and marched 10 Mic
souri,. Reporting to Gen. Pope he was nlaced
in command of the troops at Mexico.
On August % the president commissioned
him brigadier general of volunteers. a nro
motion he first heard of through the paners
and assumed command at Carlo. He Seized
Paducah, at the mouth of the Tennessee
on Sept. 9 which was his first military
achievement and ACQUIRED three days after M
assumed his new command. On Nov. z with
two brlgades he fought the battle of Belmont
where he commanded in person and had
horse shot under him. John A. LOGAN was
with him as colonel. Grant then was given
command of the district of Cairo. one Of ths
largest military divisions of the country. After
reconnaissance he started on Feb. 3 from Padu.
cab with a force of $1,000 men for the
capture of Forts Henry and Donaldson. tn,
capture of the latter being the frs
brilliant victory that had crowned
the federal arms Grant sprang at once into
national celebrity. He was immediately com.
missioned major general of volunteers and
took command of 10000 to make an expedition
mp the Tennessee. In the celebrated battle Of
Shiloh, April 6 and 2, where both sides LOST
about 1900, he was slightly wounded. Gen.
Halleck was called to Washington and Grant
became commander of the department Of West
Tennessee. He won a complete victory Sept
19 at Iuka and was attacked at his position at
Corinth. On October 16 his department ex-
tended to Vicksburg and was designated the
department of the Tennessee. After his seige
and capture of Vicksburg, July 4, 1852,
he was promoted to tho rank of major
general of the regular army, and was
placed ia command of the Mississippi,
comprising the departments commanded
by sherman, Thomas, Burnside and Hooker.
After his victories at Missionary Ridge. and
Lookout Mountain, congress voted him a med
al and passed a bill reviying the grade Of lieu
tenant-general and Grant was Immediately nom
mated. He received his commission from
President Lincoln and on March IL, 1854. as
sumed command of the armies of the United
States, with headquarters at Potomac. With
zoe, 600 men under him he planned two cam
paigns, one under Gen. Meade, to operate
against Lee at Richmond, the other under Sher-
man against Atlanta. On May 3 Grant moved
on Richmond crossing the Rappadan with the
army of the Potomac, with 140, 900 men push
ing through the Wilderness, where the bloody
battle of the Wilderness was fought which
foiled Grants attempt to interpose his army
between Lee and Richmond Being repeatedly
repuised by Lee with bloody results, he sent
the famous message which closed with, II
propose to fight 1T out on this line If il takes
all summer" And he did. His losses we're
54,55l, and Lees $4,000.
After the evacuation of Richmond and the
surrender of Lee at Appomatox Court Hor5s
April 9. Grant fixed his headquarters at Wash
ington and on July rs, 1866 was commissioned
general of the United States army. He was
made secretary of war during the suspension
of Stanton from August IL, 1867, to January
Is, 1868.
He was unanimously nominated on the first
ballot for president at the republican conven-
ton held at Chicago May 81, 1868 with Schuy-
Ter Colfax vice president. The ticket carried
20 states. he was i~naugurated March 4, 1861
In 1871 President Grant urged the annexa.
ton of Santo Domingo, but the senate withheld
its approval. A commission of FIVE British and
five American members, on May 8, signed Q
treaty on the subject OF navigation and the
alabama Claims The latter was submitted
to q court of arbitration at Geneva, Switzer-
land, on Sept. Ia, 1872, and the sum Of s15,5O0,-
600 was awarded to be paid by the British gov
eminent to the United States for damages to
American by Confederate cruisers
fitted out in British ports. The Ku-Klux bill
was enforced by q presidential proclamation.
He appointed a commission to inquire into
civil service and remedy it.
He was rem ominated and elected to another
term in 1872 in 1874 he vetoeda bill to increase
the Volume ofcurrepcy.
At the close of his term, accompanied by his
family, he made a trip around the world, and
everywhere received with the highest honors
ever accorded a citizen of the United States. His
return home was a perfect ovation from San
Eraucisco wbara ba- IanIad N his home NJ
Galena, whence he had started on his brilliant
career.
He afterwards removed to New York and en-
gagged in business, which resulted drsastrously.
His last days were burdened by regret that his
honorable name should go down TO posterity
partner Ferdinand Ward have cast upon 1t by
his business transactions.
In the summer of 1884 Gen. Grant visited 81
Paul as the guest of Henry Willard ON the cele-