Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-08-13
In Memory OF Grant.


the auspices of Tom Cox post, G. A r.,
were fitting observance of respect for
the memory of that representative sol
der to whose courage and ability we
are to-day indebted for united, pros
porous and peaceful country, without
cloud in the political sky which threat
ems national dissolution or sectional
rancor. The various churches of the
city, in Difference to the impressive oc-
casion, had united in these services,
and were represented in the pulpit by
their pastors while the congregations
occupied every inch of valuable space
in the auditorium. The principal BUSH
cess places Of the city tastefully draped
their front windows with emblems OF
mourning, and closed their doors dur
ing the exercises at the church, from
to P. NJ. A large number of people
from outside the city were present,
many of them former soldiers under
the gallant man whose death was being
commemorated. The church was elab-
orately decorated with appropriate en-
blems of drapery and flowers, the prin-
cipal floral tribute being an urn, some
three feet in height. and occupying the
communion table, composed of white
roses with the name GRANT in purple
violets transversely across, draped be-
meath catafulque of national colors
The urn was the design of Dir. A. IL.
Barber, and the floral arrangement by
Mrs. Fannie Sherman, Mrs. Ira Bellows,
Mrs. X. Z. Mccoy and Others AT 2 p
NJ, the church bell tolled while the
members of the post marched from their
hall to the church. On their entrance
the organist played the Portuguese Hymn
while the veterans marched to their
station in front of the altar. The con-
gregation arose while Rev. S. w. Eaton
offered prayer. The choir then ehanted
the Lord Prayer, after which the fol-
slowing ceremonies were conducted ac-
cording to the ritual of the e. A. r.:
ALEX. lyEY, Post Com -Adiutant,
for what purpose is this meeting called?
A. c. MORSE, Adjutant- To pay our
tribute of respect to the memory of our
late comrade, u. S. Grant.
1 Post Commander Have you a record
of his service in the cause of our coun-
try, and in the Grand Army of the Re-
/ public?
Adjutant- Commander, | have
Post Commander-Y You win please
4 read it.
Adjutant- Comrade Grant was late
a member of George G. Mead post, No.
l, department of Pennsylvania Grand
Army of the Republic, and his death
occurred at Mt. McGregor, N. Y, July
%, at S o'clock A. NJ. Comrade Grant
was born at Point Pleasant, O., April
q, 1922; entered the u. S. military
academy at West Point, n. Y, July /,
1889, and was graduated therefrom and
appointed Bvt. "a Lieut., 4th Infantry,
July |, 1913; promoted I'd Lieut.. Sept.
] 30, 1915; breyetted 1st Lieut.. Sept. 8,
lS47, for gallant and meritorous con-
duet in the battle of Moline del Rev,
Mexico, and Captain, Sept 10. 1S47, for
gallant conduct at Chapultepec; pro-
NOTED lst Lieut.. Sept. l6, 1S47, and
Captain, Aug. 5. 1858; resigned July
81, 1854. Upon the breaking out OF
the war of the rebellion he offered his
services to his country without condi-
ton, and was commissioned Colonel,
2lst Ills. Vols, June Is, 1861; Brigadier-
General, Aug. 5, 1861; Major-G General,
U. S. Vols, Feb. 16, 1862; Maior-Gen
eral, U. S. Army, July 4, 1868; Lieut.
General, Mar. 2, 1864; and General,
july %, 1866, which last commission
he held until vacated, March 4, 1869, by
reason of his Inauguration as President
Of the United States. Upontbe demand
of his grateful countrymen, he was, on
March 3, 1885, again made General, U.
S. Army (retired), and so died, as was
most fitting, with the harness of his
country upon him. He bore the com.
mission of the United States in active
service for nineteen years; for seven
years he was in the presence of actual
war. Measured by the number of en-
gagements in which he participated; by
| the physical difficulties met and over
come; by the numbers engaged in act
nal battle under his leadership; by his
mastery comprehension and quick
adaptation of the changing and thereto
fore untried conditions resulting from
improvements in arms; by the vastness
OF the strategic combinations he wisely
conceived and successfully guided; and
by the results achieved for his country,
for his countrymen, for liberty and law
everywhere, he was the peerless soldier
of his own age, and without superior
in any other. His title to high place
among the statesmen of all time was
established by the supreme wisdom
which, in the day OF. final triumph, die
! tated those terms of surrender which in
the compass of an hour well nigh healed
the wounds of four years of war. Called
by the imperative voice of his fellow
citizens to the office of President of the
! United States, for eight years he stood
in their chief place, and, surrendering
then his trust, left to his successor a
country which in every element of pres
ent strength and promise of future pros
perity and glory surpassed the dream
of the most sanguine. Seeking in travel
abroad the rest and recreation he had
so well earned, with only the title of
/ American citizen 10 commend him, the
great in station, in learning, aud in
achievement of every land sought to do
| him honor, whilst the humble, crowd
ing his pathway, invoked for him the
blessing which their empty hands could
not hestow. The chief citizen of a
Christian land, he adorned the great
ness of his public life by the practice Of
those simple virtues which is the fulfill
ment of the law. The sanctities of home
tbn abinf nillare of our stafa found