The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-07-31

victory owing TO the failure OF zen. Rose
Grams to carry out his orders. After the
battle OF Corinth Grant proposed the cap
ture OF Nicksburg, and receiving no
answer from the general-in-chief, on No.
vember 2 he began a movement into the
interior OF Mississippi. While he threat
ened Vicksburg from the rear with 10000
men Sherman was sent by the river with
100000 men to attack it in front. Grant
advanced as far as Oxford, fifty miles,
when Holly Springs, his principal base of
supplies, was surrendered by Col. Murphy,
who was dismissed for this action. This
compelled the abandonment of the cam
paign, and Grant returned to Corinth. In
January, 1868, Grant took command in per-
son OF all the forces in the Mississippi val
ley, and moved to a point opposite Vicks-
burg. There he spent several months in
f~ruitless endeavors to take the place. In
April the general marched his army through
the swamps on the western bank to a place
below Vicksburg. April Both he crossed
the river and landed at Bruinsburg. thirty
miles south of Vicksburg. Pemberton,
with so 600 men at Vicksburg, and Johns
ton, with a smaller but rapidly increasing
force at jackson, fifty miles farther east.
opposed Grant, whose forces numbered
AZ, 900 strong. Grant abandoned all COM
munication with the river and pushed into
the interior between the two hostile forces.
May LIST he met and defeated a portion oil
Pemberton's command at Port Gibson;
then advancing eastward, IN the 18th he
fell upon and destroyed a force coming out
from Jackson to meet him. On the 18th
he captured Jackson and scattered John.
sons forces. Turning the same day to the
Mississippi, on the 10th he utterly routed
Pemberton's entire force at Champions
Hill; IN the 10th he came up with the
enemy again and defeated him at Black
river bridge, and on the 18th drove him
into Vicksburg. On the 10th and 21st he
made unsuccessful assault on the town,
and on the 23d began a regular siege. The
place surrendered July 4th with 81 600
men and 172 cannon, the largest capture
OF men and material ever made in war up
to that time. During this campaign the
confederates lost 40, 600 prisoners, 1000
killed and wounded, and 5000 by disease
and struggling. Grants entire loss was
S,S73, and he was made a major-general in
the regular army. October 10th he was
given command of the Mississippi division,
which included the armies OF the Ohio,
Cumberland and Tennessee. the latter he
commanded so long and so well. On the
Odd OF October Grant reached Chattanoo-
ga, where the army was quartered, sur
rounded by the enemy and at a point oil
starvation.
The battle OF Lookout valley, fought on
the 27th, under Grants direction, relieved
the city and army. November 23, "a and
25 the battle of Chattanooga was
fought, in which Bragg was defeated and
5000 men captured. In February, loo4,
Grant was appointed commander oil the
Union armies, with the newly-created rank
OF lieutenant general. He now set about
to meet Lee, who commanded the army OF
northern Virginia, and fought his way from
the Rapidan to the James river with tins
end in view. Before Grant reached the
James he lost 5000 men killed, and 26,-
900 wounded, and nearly 7.OOo taken
prisoners, while he captured 10000 OF the
enemy. The losses to Lees army can
never be known, as he destroyed his own
records. The battles OF the Wilderness,
Spottsvlvania, North Anna and Cold Har-
Dor were the hardest Grant ever fought,
and after each he advanced and Lee Wluh-
drew. He was anxious to annihilate Lee,
and with this end the campaign oil the
Wilderness was planned. When Grant ar
rived in front OF Richmond he crossed the
James in pursuance with n plan formed
months before. Formonths he waited ana
foupht before Richmond, with various re-
suits. The government advised MN 70
abandon it, but Grant never wavered. 10y
September Sherman had reached Atlanta
and Grant then sent mm ON ms famous
march 70 the sea, n route set out by Grant
| ~ nOnllN btlOARs 'N 6NN
success possible, not only by holding Lee
i'm front OF Richmond, but by sending rem.
orcements, who then drew of and defeated
the only army which could have confronted
Sherman.
When the final campaign began Lee had
"a 600 men ut Richmond, besides the
| militia and gunboat sailors, amounting To
5000 more. Including Sheridan's force,
Grant had 40, 900 men before Petersburg
- D.,I,,Apl an fhn I'd and Lee He'd to-
ward Lynchburg. Grant pursued ana
Lee, finding himself out-fought, out
marched, out-generaled and surrounded,
surrendered ut Appomattox court house
April 9TH, 1885, with 27 1000 men, all that
remained Of his army. Afterthis the other
| confederate armies asked to surrender ana
the great civil war was ended.
Grant returned to Washington to super
intend the disbursement OF the army, and
while there President Lincoln was assassl-
mated. 1t had doubtless been Intended TO
include Grant in this, as he was invited TO
| occupy the box at the theatre with the
murdered president. During %Johnson's
administration Grant was clothed with
| large powers by congress to neutrallze the
supposed detection OF johnson TO the
| southern element in the reconstruction
He was elected president in 1865 and took
the oath OF office March 4, 1869. lie was
reelected in 1872. After opening the CEN
tenninl exposition at Philadelphia in 1917
he set out upon n tour around the world.
1t was a continual ovation, each country
through which he passed vieing with the
Others in doing him special honor. IN En-
gland particularly was his reception cor
dial and his person shown marked respect
the freedom OF the city OF London being
presented to him, an honor rarely con-
ierred. Upon his return to America IN
1879 he was given n magnificent re-
~ception in Omaha as he was passing
through on the way to his old home
In. Gninnn Illinois. lie resided in that