Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-07-27
THE DEAD, GENERAL.
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like do something In his honor. aud would
like 10 do that. ALBERT HAwktNs.
Gen. Porter will bring this message to
tho attention OF Gen. Grants family, and
IL Is quite likely the coachman's request
will be granted.
Gen. Porter said: "Thcrc was most
devoted attachment for Gen. Grant on
the part OF this colorcd man and the gem
crn thought much of him. He is q most
faithful fellow and black as coal"
al have heard many persons, since his
death, comparing Gen. Grant with the
great generals of history observed Gen.
Porter this afternoon while quietly chat
ting with the writer, "but to my mind the
fact that comparisons are sought TO he
made best, proves that Gen. Grant was
unlike any of them
WAR "REMINISCENCES.
ono" added Gen. Porter, she was cast
in different mould from any Of the his
torical generals. think he was the most
ready have ever known. Persons have
come to him while busy and asked him
for letters upon some subject, and instead
of putting ii OFF Gen. Grant would most
always immediately write what was re-
qucstcd, and II would be as clear and
compact as though done by altcrary man
who had studied 1t out and revised II
twice. recall an instance Of Gen Grants
READINESS IN EMERGENCIES.
ON the night Of the second day OF the
Wilderness fight, when Sedgwick's corps
had been broken and Smaller and seymour
captured, Gen. Grant sat in his hcadquar-
ters and listened to the fast-coming re-
ports of perplcXity and trouble, and ne
t,v al. ,fg
his orders with as much pre-
cision and display of judg-
mcnt as though he had been
studying that unexpected situation for
two months, and all who saw him watched
and listened and wondered. And again,
Gen. Grant was called upon to give Il
hearing unexpectedly In case he had
not before heard. The case involved the
value OF cotton, and in its decision it also
involved questions of international and
marutime law, and also of contra
band laws and cotton in foreign
bottoms. Wen, the lawyers came before
the general and argued at length and
when they had done he rendered Il dccis-
ion that left
80 ROOM FOR FURTHER DOUBT
80 clear and cogcnt were the points. AZ
forwards one OF the lawyers came to me
and asked where that man, meaning the
general, had studied law, but told him
that Gen. Grant had never studied
law and his comprehensive grasp and in
formation were facts that | could tell
nothing about.
\ BRUTE PUNISHED.
''Did Gen, Grant ever grow nervous or
excited, do you ask? | never saw him
angry but once, and that was when he
saw IL brutal fellow clubbing Il horse
over the head. The general
seized the man, told him he
was a brute, and punished him
for impudencc of which he was guilty to
the general; but ! never heard him utter
an oath or any approach TO it, and | was
with him nine years, without ever being
away from him more than two weeks.
THE GENERAL's moRsEMANSIIIr.
| "Grant was II splendid driver and fine
whip Ms well. He could ride four or five
/ miles and come in perfectly fresh
and tire out younger men
/ He was much attached To Il little horse
called Jeff Davis because he was secured
on JEFF Davis plantation. lie was NJ
easy animal to ride and was easily guided
to rough inS and outs, but when fordlnl
streams jeff was AT II disadvantage. Their,
was besides II noble big bay colorcc
fellow named Cincinnati, which
Gen Grant used 10 ride
/ That horse would ford stream magniti
Gently. 1t was on Little JEFF that Gen
Grant accompanied by myself and Al
orderly
RODE TO THE FRONT
on the morning when there was an hou
Of delay in the explosion of our mine n
Petersburg. The general wore littl,
blue blouse that morning and many o
the men uS he passed 10 the front die
not know that its wcarc
was Gen. Grant. The firing was bccom
ing very heavy aud suggested that W,
dismount because we could get abou
much easier ! did not say that tn
firing was terrific for that would hay,
been To him
No ARGUMENT FOR pIsMoUNTING,
50 we diSmountcd, the orderly holdin,
little Jeff by the bride and then Gen
Grant made his way throug
the lines and works clear on
to the front where the firing was heavy in
deed, hut he was man who ncvc
winkcd IN the face of missiles, and tn
only one of two | ever saw who woul
I not involuntarily do SO. The other was
! buglcr. Gen. Grant was Il rip-vnn-da
sort of
MAN on THE PEOPLE.
He enjoyed being among his men durin,
the war and In private life when riding II
II special car, perhaps, he would 90 for
ward TO take half seat with som
passenger In the front car when h
wanted to smoke. II is sad, sad, tina
with ten ripe years naturally before him
I such man should needs be taken away
and think the loss viii be more ap
preciatcd by the people rs time goes ON. :
COINCIDENCE.