The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-04-10


Louis, now Mrs. Grant The marriage took
place in the house of the brides father at st.
Louis After their wedding trip the young
couple lived for n while at farm house
owned by Colonel Dent, Mrs Grants father,
near St Louis and there Nellie Grant, now
Mrs. Sartoris, was born, rs were one or two
of the boys. At this place General Grant
also first settled Immediately after his rcsig-
nation from the army in 1854. But becoming
dissatisfied with this existence, and having
been disappointed by failure to obtain the
position of county surveyor. he moved his
rapidly increasing family back to St. Louis
where he was engaged for awhile
in the real estate business the
firm being Grant & Boggs The venture
was failure, and in course Of time the gen.
eral accepted an offer from his father to en-.
ter the latters tannery at Galena. He gave
away his four slaves and removed his other
chattels to Illinois
April 49, 1861, six days after the fall of
Fort Sumter and four days after President
Lincoln's call for men, Grant drilled COM
pany, and four days later took his volunteers
to Springfield and wrote to the adjutant-gen
eral to offer his services. No attention
was paid to him, and he spent a month
or more drilling troops. He tried to see
General Mcclellan at Cincinnati to
get place on his staff, but was
Yates offer of the Twenty-first Illinois
infantry as colonel and took his regiment
into Missouri and reported to General Pope.
He was stationed at Mexico commissioned
brigadier general of volunteers, and was then
placed at several points successfully by Major.
General Fremont, who commanded the West,
ern department
When General Polk had seized Columbus
and Hickman, thus destroying the neutrality
of Kentucky General Grant took two regi-
ments and two gunboats and sailed up the
Ohio one night, and at $50 the next morn
ing quietly took possession Of Paducah He
had sent to General Fremont for orders
but seized the city before these reached
HIM This enabled him to hold that part
of the country, with Cairo as his head
quarters, but his subordinate position
kept him idle for two months, which he util-
lied to drill the 10000 men now under him.
On November g. 1861, he was ordered to
move down the river, with 8, 100 raw men.
John A. Logan was n colonel in his command
The next day he landed a. Hunters Point
and marched on the Confederate camp at
Belmont. The fight was desperate, and his
anal victory destroyed the discipline of his
forces. He restored orler by setting the camp
on fire, and was marching back to the
transports whom Confederate reinforcementS
cut him off. When told he was surrounded
his answer was:
ave must cut our way out as we cut our
way in
He charged the enemy successfully, but
being obliged to see to everything in person
ne WIS separated from ms men Wllie looking
after the wounded, and had to ride for his
life He was hotly pursued, and his horse
slid down the river bank on its launches and
trotted over plank or board amid showering
bullets.
During the spring of 1862 General Grant,
acting under orders from General Haleck
was employed in keeping the CJnfederates in
check III Western Kentucky. In February
of that year he advanced ON Forts Henry
and Doneson with $1,000 men, supported by
Commodore Foote'S gunboats. After cap
turing Fort Henry on the Tennessee, chiefly
accomplished by the gunboats, General Grant
pursued the Confederate forces to Fort Don
elson. There terrific battle ragged almost
without interruption for three days and
three nights, and finally, on February -,
le62, the fort was surrendered uncon-
troops. This was ' the first 'f great t
victory of the Union army, and as such was
hailed with great enthusiasm at the North
Grant was elevated to the rank of major
general. Having been appointed to the
command of the district of West Tennessee,
Grant advanced up that river to Pittsburg
Landing, where his army fought the battle Of
Shiloh with a Confederate force of 10000
men under Albert Sidney Johnston The
Federal lines We're at first overwhelmed and
thrown into disorder, and it seemed as
though the Union army would be driven
into the Tennessee; but General Grant
formed new lines, planted new batteries and
held the Confederate forces IN check until
dark, when the long-expected arrival of
General Buell. with 35 600 fresh troops en-
abled him to retrieve the fortunes of the day
The Confederates, having lost their COM
mander, retired to Corinth. The loss was
about Il, 600 on either side
General Grant was second in command to
General Halleck at the siege of Corinth, and
when the latter was ordered to Washington
he was appointed to take the command of
norf1,a At,t Of ha
capacity he marched against Vicksburg, the
"Glbraltar' of the COnfederateS, on the Mis-
sissippi- After long and memorable seige
this place was surrendered Internationally
ON July 4, 1868, and $1,000 prisoners, 100 can
non, with an immense amount of military
stores fell into the hands of the Federal
army.
When General Rosecrans was defeated at
Chickamauga, Grant was sent to repair the
disaster,and on November %, 1863, he defeated
General Bragg at Lookout Mountain
The defence of Chattanooga by driving
General Bragg from Missionary Ridge and
Lookout Mountain was regarded as a splen.
did achievement, and Congress bestowed
upon General Grant a gold melal. On March
!, 1864, General Grant was raised to the high
est military position in theland-that of lieu
was constituted COM
mander- in-chief of all the armies of the
United States. Invested with this authority
General Grants plan was to destroy Lees
army Washington was to be covered from
raid, through the Shenandoah, by General
Sigel. General Butler was to menace Rich
mond from the South, Sherman was to press
his campaign in Georgia with all vigor, that
no achievements might be sent to Lees aid.
General Grant, with Meades army
of 10000 north of the Rapidan,
was to draw Lees army out of their intrench,
ments, and either destroy them or compel
them to rush from the threatening of Wash
inSton to the protection of their own capital
On Tuesday night, May 3, 1854, General
Grant crossed the Rapidan and entered what
is called the Wilderness BY flank move
ment Grant was getting into the rear of the
Confederate army. Lee rushed from his in
trenchments and underworld to overwhelm
Grant. Then began what has been called
'the most gigantic and terrific campaign re-
corded in history After eleven DAYS of
bloody and almost uninterrupted battles, the
two armies, ION the twelfth day of this
unparalleled struggle, were still confronting
each other, both on the defensive sterniy
looking face to face, both prepared for an.
other round! With the dawn the battle was
renewed by tremendous but vain assault