Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-07-30

as the general drew deeper breath.
| There was an exhnlntion like that of one
relieved of long and anxious tension
The members of the group Were irnpelled
| each step nearer the bed and each
awaited another respiration but it
never came There was absolute still
ness in the room and hush
of expectant suspense, and no sound
broke the silence save the singing Of the
birds in the pines outside the cottage
and the measured throbbing in the en-
gine that all night had waited by the
little mountain station down the slope.
sit is all over" quietly spoke DIR. Douglas
and there came then heavily to each
witness the realization that Grant was
dead. Then the doctors Withdrew, the
nurse drew down the eyelids and COM
posed the dead generals head, after
which each of the family group pressed
to the bedside one after the other
and touched their lips upon the quiet
face 80 lately stilled.
DIR. Shrady passed out upon the piazza
and as he did so met Dr. Newman hasten
| ing up the steps. .He is dead" re-
marked DIR. Shrady quietly. The fact of
having been absent from the side of the
dying man and his family at the last was
cause of severe and sad regret to the
clergyman who had waited all night at
the cottage. He had been summoned
from his breakfast moment too late and
reached the cottage only in time to min
lister to the family sorrow and gaze upon
the scarcely hushed lips of the dead general
to whom DIR. Newman had been bound
| by such close ties and relations
Those who saw and knew, and I'LL who
learned of the clergyman's absence from
the DEATH bed, quickly speak the impulse
of hearty sympathy.
OBITUARY.
| General Ulysses S. Grant was born in
n humble home at Point Pleasant, Cler-
mont county, Ohio, April 9th, 1922. His
early surroundings We're lowly, his father
being Woodworking pioneer in trade,
dealing in leather for livelihood. At the
age of IL young Grant entered the West
Point military academy, and at the age of
81 he was graduated, No. q in class of
43 pupils. His baptismal name was
Hiram Ulysses, but through some error he
| WINS entered ut West Point as s'Ulysses S. :"
| and the name thus recorded remained.
The Mexican war coming on few
years later Lieutenant Grant, rs he was
made in the Seventh United States In
| fantry September 30th, 1915, saw plenty
of active service. He served with honor
and was promoted to a first lieutenancy
| September 10Th, 1S47. After peace was
declared he was stationed at various posts
on the Canada frontier and in Oregon
and California. He was promoted to n
captaincy August 9Th, 1858.
Previous to this, in 1848, Lieutenant
Grant married Julia L. Dent, daughter of
n st. Louis merchant. In 1851 he re-
signed from the army and settled down as
| u farmer on n small scale near st, liOuis.
| As n farmer Grant was unsuccessful and
correspondingly impecunions. II is of
some interest to read that he was n slave
holder in small way nj that time and that
when he gave up his Missouri farm and
crossed the river TO join his father and
brother at Galena, Ills, in the tanning
business, he made II gift to a friend of his
bour remaining slaves.
The outbreak of the civil war re-
awakened the military spirit of Captain
| Grant. Within week after the fall of
Fort Sumpter he was organizing a COM
pany of volunteers in Galena, On June
| 18th, 1861, he was commissioned colonel
of the Twenty first Illinois Regiment and
| reporting Brigadier-General Pope for
| duty was stationed at Mexico, Mo. His
first important achievement was the
seizure, in September following, of
| Paducah, KY, a movement which pre-
| vented the secession of Kentucky.
In February, 1862, he entered ON the
| seige of Fort Donelson, the capture of
| which gave him national fame, and his
| title of "Unconditional Surrender" Grant.
He was made nlajor-gencral by the
| Secretary of War. The seige OF Vicks-
burg, in the summer of 1868, was followed
| by the assignment of General Grant to
| the military division of the Mississippi.
| The campaign of Chicamauga, with the
| memorable BATTLES of Chattanooga, Mis-
| sionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain
| followed
In February, 1864, Congress revived
| the grade of lieutenant general and con-
| ferred this rank on Grant, thus elevating
| him to the command of the army of the
| nation, and in March he came east and
assumed direct command of the Army of
the Potomac. Many of EVERY EVENINGS
readers will doubtless recall going to the
p, w. & B. depot to see Lieutenant Gen
eral Grant pass through this city on his
way to take charge of the " On to Rich
mond movement.
From this time up to the surrender of
Lee, April 9th, 1865, Gen. Grant, ably
seconded by Gens.Sherman and Sheridan,
was slowly but surely closing in upon and
crushing the life out of the southern con-
federacy. On April 18th the southern
troops stacked their guns and went back
to their homes and their farms to fight no
more
In 1868 Grant was elected President
and reelected in 1872. Soon after the
close of his second term, in May 1877, he
set out on his famous trip around the
world. He returned to his native land
in 1879, and has since made his home in
New York. The recent act of Congress
in placing him on the retired list with the
rank of General is fresh in every ones
memory.l
THE SAD NEWS RECEIVED HERE.
At 8.t4 o'clock, just six minutes after
General Grant had breathed his last, a
dispatch bearing the sad, though not un-
expected news was received over EVERY
EVENINGS wire. Messengers were sent to
the city hall and court house, and the
mayor and sheriff of the two public build
ines ordered the bells to be tolled. The
heavy bells pealed out sad funerenl notes
from their brazen throats, and the sad
significance of the dirge was at once
understood. A bulletin board announced
the hero's death from EVERY EVENING
office and the news circulated very
rapidly.
As the end of the eventful life has been
fully anticipated and expected for several
days its coming did not produce the sanit
effect il would have done n month ol
more ago, when death seemingly Ind set,
tied upon the grand old hero. Upon nj
sides sincere and deep sorrow was eX
pressed and indicated, hut 10 the ma
iority who have watched, throuSi III,
papers, the long and painful struggle th,
general has given the fatal mala,lS, when
there was no hope, death was viewed MS
J relief. Among the Grand Army of thu
Republic the battles of the hero, uncon
querahle in the field of action, wer'
, fought over again and the many traits o
the general discussed. Each recalled somI
| incident of the hero of the century, anC
: all expressed their great sorrow that Ii
, had been called to meet death i'll the ter
| rible form III which it appeared.
On the various public buildings TN
national hag was set at half-mast an,
heavily tEaped in deep black. From
many private residences and busines
l places the some tokens of mourning wer
3 shown, the work of draping commencing
. almost MS soon as the news reached til
city.
The dealers who had large stock o