Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-07

= AoAo WC1O UOtll HULL Ill
Lected on receiving a copy of the Assoc;a.
ted Press dispatch announcing the death OF
General Grant,
ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT.
Biographical Sketch Of the Most Noted
Character of the Century,.
Ulysses Simpson Grant WIS born at Point
Pleasant, o, April q, lsss. His ancestors
were Scotch; His parents, IN 1923, emoved ia
Inc village OF Georgetown, O., where his boy.
At the age Of seventeen General Grant en-.
Tered the Military Academy at West Point lie
Gaa neen ehriste e,!1.s Hiram Ulysses, but The
ment by mistake. wrote him down as tIyss
es S. Grant. The authorities ut West
t FONT and nc the Secretary Of War were peti.
piunder, put no notice was taken of the re
quest. ulysses $. Grant had been recorded,
and Ulysses s; Grant he remained. The study
IN which he showed the most proficiency was
mathematics. He graduated in 1913, twenty.
nrst IN q class Of thirty-nine. INT was com.
mns ssa J. Breyet Second Lieutenant, and az
In the summer of 1915 the regiment was
ordered to Texas to join the army of Genera.
s saytor; h e was a;s c9 9naa Lieutenant
Alto, May 8, 1915, and he subsequently took
part also in the battles of Resaca de Ia Palma
and Monterey, and the siege of Vera Cruz. In
his regiment, and after the battle of Moline
del Rey, September 8, 1S47, he was appointed
on on the field First Lieutenant for his gailantry.
lands report of the baltic Of %Chapultepec
and was brevetted Captain, his commission
dating from that battle. After the capture Of
regiment and was stationed first at Detroit
and afterward at Sackett's Harbor.
In ls4s he married MISS Julia T.. Dent,
daughter OF q merchant in st. Louis and
Sister OF one OF hiS c1nSsmafoa Tn 1870 h.
accompanied his regiment to California and
Oregon, and in 1853 was commissioned Cap
tam. In 1854 he resigned his commission in
the army and removed to Gravois. near st
Louis. where he operated a farm. There hit
daughter Nellie, now Mrs. s%artoris, was born
In 1853 he removed to ,Galena, ILL.,, and on
his brother. Oryille.
On the 18th of April, 1861, Fort Sumter fell.
On the 18th President Lincoln made his cal.
2 company of volunteers in Galena
Four days later he took it to Spring.
field. From there he wrote to the Ad{a:
services to the Government in any capacity il
which it cared to make use Of HIM. Grant re
manned at Springfield and helped to organize
weeks of this work, which his military educa
ton had specially fitted him for, Governor
Yates offered him the Twenty-tirst Regimen,
He took command of his regiment early in
June and marched to Missouri. Reporting tc
acknowledgment Pope, he was stationed al
KMs7ieo' 6 6bo %df 1ldty % 81 Is n9 was Of ao the MissSng
Brigadier-General Of Volunteers, his com.
mission being dated back to May IT,
the seizure Of Paduea;h, Ky, which Command
ed the navigation of both the Tennessee ane
the 0hio: At the battle Of Belmont, Novem;
had a horse shot under him. February
6, he captured Fort Henry, and ter
days later Fort Donelson surrendered
to him; His reply to the Confederate Gen
son. who sent to him asking terms of capitu
lation, was eminently characteristic OF the
great, soldie1: No terms except uneondi
cepted. ! propose to move Immediately upon
your works" The terms were complied with
and the Stars and Stripes soon tuJtered over
General Grant was Mt once promoted to be
Major General and appointed Commander o1
under General Halleck's displeasure, and was
removed, but in Sbout a week was ordered to
resume his command: The great battle
day a ss5l'r Mond Gss the a9Ot stS and ID It'll su q
April, 1862, and resulted in a victory for the
Union soldiers, It was in this engagement that
ston was killed. At the siege of Corinth Grant
was second in command to General
Halleck, and when the latter was
to the command Of the Army Of the
July !, 1sss, and defeated Bragg at Ghatta
1884, President Lincoln appointed Grant
Commander-in.Chief Of the armies in the
field, with the rank Of Lieutenant,Gen
ISSUED HHait h his ID ars t'' general Ha ine ord taoi assuming ming
command of the armies Of the United
States, and announced that Headquarters
further mn4 t ORDERS or with III the Army Army : Of dn the P Paa1
mac" At midnight, May 3, Grant began the
movement against Richmond, which, after O
series of ha~rd-fought battles, resulted in the
1865. On the 9th of the same month Genera
Lee and his entire command surrendered to
Grant at A%E }a2e annsre G;oq Htdaf, s. Va acmm ,..
stoned General Of the Army, a grade espe
cially provided for him by ret of Congress
August II, 1867, President johnson suspended
General Grant Secretary of War I'D interim
This office Grant held until January IA, 1868
when he returned it to Mr.: Stanton. whose Re;
At the Republican National Convention
held in Chicago, May II, ls6s, General Grant
With the late !, Hon: Schuyler coifax as vice
President; In ba,a the ie RRS SEIa6a'nhia. H 5nne 4
1872, Grant was renominated by reclamation,
Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts, being nomi:
mated for vice.President y H g received q
pOpuldr uuJOIlLy VI ucuIly CUUsOUU tOCCS oVVA
Horace Greeley, the Democratic nominee.
Shortly after the expiration of his term in
1877, the General and Mrs. Grant made q toul
around the world, landings at San Francisco. IL
everywhere with the highest consideration
the Governments and peoples of the Old
World vying with each other in doing honort c
the American soldier and patriot.
General Grant was q very prominent candt
date before the Chicago National Republican
Convention in 1880, for the nomination
succeed in getting the nomination
Since then he has lived in New York
His financial roubles are too recent events to
mention in this connection.
In the last hours o. the recent Congress, 8
bill was passed placing the old hero on the re
tired list of the army, with the rank. and pay
Of General. :,
The details of his illness, his restoration t.
comparative health, his removal to Noun
MacGregor, etc, are of too recent occurrence
to require notice in this sketch.
Death of Peter H. Watson.
NEW York, July 24.-Peter H. Watson
ex-President of the Erie Railway, died
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