Omaha daily bee., 1885-06-09
GRAN IS NEW BOOK
Leaves Fr,R The Diary Of tie Com
miadtr Of Two Armies,
The Old Generals Fright on
Expecting i o Meet Harris,
Made ommander OF tho Army OF the
Mississippi-rhe Appomatox Apple
Troe ttoFy Banished.
GRANTS sTopx OF THE WAR
rAops IN ADVANCE.

FACES IN ADNAHOh
NEW YonK, June g. The Commercial Ad-
vertiser publ hes nearly page of extract, |
from Gsn Grants "Personal Memoirs"
which will be published within few months. |
The first volume Ia completed, and the sec /
ond nearly 30. The extracts given show the /
work TO be- written in sturdy and terse Anglo. |
Saxon, with here and there q touch OF quiet |
humor The de1icalion Is in fac smile of the |
generals manuscript, as follows:
"These volumes are dedicated to the Amer |
lean soldier and sailor U. s. GRANT.
"New York, May %, 1885,"
The general begins by saying that he 10 OF
Americ IN stock on bo h sides for many gener- |
ations Matthew CIR mt, 'rom whom he is de |
scendsnt In the eighth generation, reached |
Dorchester, Mass, IN 1880, from Dorchester,
Eng His great grand.fa her, Noah Grant, |
had o commission in the British army
and bis grandfather. also named oah,
served in the war of the rebellion. He gives
an OK bdus Of his boyh )od, ut his appointment
to West Point through the influence of the
Hon, Thomas Norris Congressman from
Ohio. tells the circumstances under which he
first met Gen. Scott aud Presid mt VanBuren,
sontrasts the personal characteristics Of Gems
Scott and Taylor, gives copy OF hiI letter to
Adjt. Gen. Thomas, dated Galena, Ills. May
a. 1S6l, Offering his service to the United
States. and suggesting that he considered
himself competent to co umand q regiment
long time lost among the papers OF the war
sffice.
Speaking Of his first battle in the civil war
he says "As we approached the brow tf the
hill from which it wss expected we would rec
Harris camp and p ssib find his men ready
tkrned to meet us, my heart kept getting
higher and higher, until it felt to me- as though
It was in my throat. would have given any
thing then to have heen back in the rear, but
had not the moral coueege TO halt and con-
slider what to do kept right on. When we
reached point from which the valley was
in full view I halted. The place where HAr
ris had been encamped the day before was
still there and marks of recent elcampment
were plainly visible, but the troops were gone.
My heart resumed it's place 1t occurred to
me OF once that Harris had been AZ much
afraid of me as had been of him. This was
view Of the question 1 had never taken be-
fore, but 1t was one never forgot terwards.
FROM that event to the close of the war l
never experienced trepidation upon confront
ing an enemy"
He speaks Of the battle of Fort DonelsOn
at some length
OF the battle Of Shiloh he says he con-
adhered the situation as one in which the fed
e-al forces were on the offensive, but asserts
that no precautions for defence were ne
elected. On this subject he continues as fol-
lows:
General Beasregard was next In rank to
Johnston and succeeded in the command which
he retained until the close Of the battle, and
during the subsequent retreat on Oorinth, as
we'll as in the siege of that pl 'cs. His tactics
have been severely criticised by confederatei
writers, but do not believe his fallen chic.
could have done any better under the circum
stances. Some of the critics claim that Shi
ioh was won when Johnston fell; that
it he had net fallen the army under me
would have been whipped. 1t we SO
defeated the sonfedsrates at Shiloh there is
l. L-a~. i
gracefully beaten II the shells and bullets fired
by US had passed harmlessly over the enemy
and If all OF theirs had taken effect. Com.
manding generals are liable to be killed dur
ing engagements and the faot that when he
was shot Johnston was leading brigade *
repeatedly ordered. il evidence that there was
neither the universal decentralization on oul
aide or the unbranded confidence on their
which has been claimed. There was, in fact
NO hour during the day when 'ubted tn.
eventual defeat Of the enemy, although wa'
disappointed that the reiDf"I cement neal
at hand did net arrive at an earlier hour"
In this conf eeti IN he refers to his article II
the Century, and his remarks in 1t In regart
to Gen McCook which caused 80 much pub
lie comment. He tells Of the long march o
the day before OYER muddy roads by Gen
McCook's division, Of the Conspicuous act
Of galiantry" on the day of battle and con-
sludes in these words:
~ refer to these circumstances with mi
nuteness because / did Gen. McCook an in
justice in my article in the Century, though
not to the extent oae would suppose from tn
public press. am not willing to dp anyon
au injustice and IL convinced that l hav
done one, am always willing to make tn
fullest admission"
Then follow accounts of the siege and cap
ture Of Viessburg, of his appointment q
lieutenant general and adds: In my frf
snfa Mr. ia Il nj ba .tata
10 ms that he had never professed to be
military man or to kuow how q campaig
should be conducted, and never wanted
interfere in them, but that p 'ocrGstination o
the part of comma lders and the pressure
the people Of the north and OF congress
which, like the poor, he had always with hin
had forced him into issuing his we'll know
series of exclusive orders' He did not kno
but that they were oil wrong, All he wante
sr had ever wanted, he said, was that som
one would take the responsibility and &C
and ca ON him for all the assistance needed
Describing his command of the division
tho Mississippi, he tells how he m7t Secretal
Stanton at Indianapolis; how thsy went
Louisville, and Gays:
"Soon after we startsd the secretary handt
me two orders saying ooul take my oh IL
Of them. The two wtre identical except
enc particular Both created the milita
division of the Mississippi, giving me Il
commands, Compo,sd If ths depart rtments
the Ohio, the Cumberland, and ths Tennessee
and all the territory from the Alleghenies
the Mississippi river north of Gen. Bank
command in the southwest One order, ho'
ever, left the department t commanders as tn
were, while the other relieved Rosscrans 81
assigned Thomas to his place. acsepted Il
latter"
He says Secretary Stanton caught cold
she trip from which he never recovered.
Grant gives graphic DESCRIPTION If he
Chattanooga was saved, of how he was 80
for in haste at Hight by Secretary STanto
whom he fosah pacing the aoor rapidly
about the gar1 the Mr.. Jefferson Davis W
wearing su 1pequently when he was caplur
"a dressing 8. ,,wn. but without the aha
and sunbonnet"
Grant adds: "He showed me the dispat
saying that the retreat must bs prevents
Immediately wrote an order assuming col
maud Of the military division of the Mics
sippi, and telegraphed 1t to Rosecrans.
then telegraphed him the order from Was
:ngton assigning to Thomas the army of I
Cumberland, aud to Thomas that he m,
hold Chattanooga at all hazards"
Grant describes thu Wilderness campai
and estimates Lees strength OF $4,000 q
says Lee was operating ln country W
which his army was thoroughly familiar, wi
to federal forces ID was entirely unknov
Ho tells of Less surrender, and takes occas
TO explode the fAmOns surren
under the apple tree. He SAWS tn
Was on apple orchard across the valley Fl
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