The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-11-21

stances OF the case at the time
should suggest. At the appointed
time for.a advance his intention
was that Sherman should move
directly against Johnston, and ham
mer, pound, aud follow him until
his army was destroyed or captured.
If neither the destruction nor capt
ure should occur to drive him on TO
Mobile aud then crush him, or ON to
Savannah and back on to Richmond,
and there crash both the armies be-
tween the two great armies of the
Union. At the same time Meade
should advance upon Lees forces
and strike him at every point, and
fight him in every place, wherever
and whenever he should find him,
until he should break his army to
pieces or capture it. Neither of the
armies should hesitate in carrying
out this common purpose. So that
when Richmond should fall the two
great armies of the rebellion should
fall with it. This plan was carried
out, and was Il success. 1t caused
us to achieve the victories that saved
the Republic. There was but one
failure in carrying it out to the
letter, on both lines; that was when
Hood was permitted TO escape from
Sherman's front from Lovejoy's
Station, back into our rear, march
ing against Nashville. 1t forced
Thomas's army to return and follow
him while the remainder of the
forces moved without obstruction to
the sea. This failure was, however,
redeemed afteward. In the West
the grand army moved forward
fighting battles at Dalton, Buzzard's
Roost, Snake Greek Gap, Resaca,
Lost Mountain, Dallas, Big and
Little Kenesaw, Peach Tree Creek,
and at and around Atlanta. Flank
movement after flank movement was
executed, and battle after battle was
fought upon fields that fairly ran
with blood until our victorious army
occupied Atlanta. The Army of the
Cumberland under Thomas moved to
the northward in pursuit of Hood,
as before stated, striking and ham
mering him to pieces at Franklin
and Nashville.
The Army of the Tennessee and
Georgia, under Sherman, marched
through Georgia to Savannah, and
thence through the Carolinas, driv-
ing before them from Savannah the
rebel forces through State after
State, marching triumphantly and
rapidly in the direction of Rich
mond. During this while the great
Army of the East, under Meade, its
cavalry commanded by Sheridan, the
Army Of the James cooperating, all
under the immediate command OF
Grant, was striking Lees veteran
Army of Northern Virginia wher.
ever found. The bloody battles OF
the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court
house, the siege of Petersburg, the
thanking marches and movements, as
well as battles in the advance from
the Rapidan upon Richmond, all
evinced the valor of the Union
troops, and the skill with which they
We're handled, as well as that re.
markable tenacity of purpose,
which as much as any other one
quality, ensbled Grant to earn the
proud title of "savior of his coun
try" Through that spring, Sum.
mer, and Winter the two great
Armies advanced their lines anG
fought their way in the direction O.
the ultimate point to be attained
On the I'd of April, 1865, Peters
burg fell. Richmond was at once
evacuated by Lee, who attempted tt
move down in the direction of ant
form junction with Johnston'
forces now in the front of Sherman
in the North Carolina. But the con
slant pounding that Grants arm.
was giving Lee, with vigorous pur
suit, Resulted, April 8, in Lee
surrender. Johnslon's surrende
soon followed, being only littl
more than the year predicted b,
Grant for the destruction of the tw
great armies of the rebellion. Thu
the great rebellion collapsed ant
ended. From the battle at Belmon
on the 7th of November, 1861, u
to the surrender of Lee at Apo
mattoX, Grant was the great centra
figure, the all-controlling genius O
the great armies of the Republic.
His name was on the lips of a
the civilized world as the great mil
tary commander of the age. File
with renown, and covered with glor
in the midst of his own people. an
now receiving the new grade c
General of the Army, never held b
, any other person before him in th
country, and which was created b
} law especially for him, having II
ceived these high honors, in hi
J heart he hoped that he might b
permitted to enjoy in the future til