The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-06-25
TWO GENERALS CoNTRAsTED:

TWO GENERALS CoNTRAsTED:
That General Grant was always keen
observer is illustrated by his sketch Of
the marked differences between General
Taylor and General Scott
I had now been in battle with the two
leading commanders conducting armies
in foreign land. The contrast between
the two was very marked. General Tay-
lor never wore uniform, but dressed
himself entirely for comfort. He moved
about the field in which he was operating
to see through his own eyes the situation
Often he would be without staff officers,
and when he was accompanied by them
there was no prescribed order in which
they followed. He was very much given
to sit on his horse sideways-with both
feet on one side-particularly on the
battlefield. General Scott was the reverse
in all these particulars. Healways wore
all the uniform prescribed or allowed by
law; when he inspected his lines word
would be sent to all division and brigade
commanders in advance, notifying them
of the hour when the commanding gene.
raj might be expected. This was done
30 that all the army might be under arms
to salute their chief as he passed. On
these occasions he wore hiS dress uniform,
cooked hat, aguillettes, sabre and spurs.
His staff proper, besides all officers con-
structively on his staf-engineers, in
spectors, quartermasters, &c.,-followed
also in uniform and in prescribed order.
Orders were prepared with great care,
and evidently with the view that they
should be history of what followed.
saw a good deal of General Taylor during
my service. with the State. On one
occasion he said to me that ought to GO
into the United States service. I told
him I intended to do so if there was q
war. He spoke of his acquaintance with
the public men of the State, aud said he
could get them to recommend me for 8
position, and that he would do all he
could for me. 1 declined to receive
Endorsements for permission to fight fo'
my country.
GRANT AND LINCOLN.
The Generals account of his first in.
teryiew with Lincoln is full of inter
est
Although hailing from Illinois myself,
the State of the President, / had never
met Mr.. Lincoln until called to the CAPT
tai to receive my commission as Lieuten
ant General. l knew him, however, very
we'll, and favorably, from the account:
given by officers under me at the West
who had known him all their lives.
had also read the remarkable course o
debates between Lincoln and Douglas a
few years before, when they were riva
candidates for the United States Senate
I was then resident of Missouri, and by
DO means "Lincoln man" in that con
test. But I recognized then his grea
ability.
In my first interview with Mr.. LincolI
alone he stated to me that he had neve
protested to be q military man, or K
know how campaigns should be conduct
ed, and never wanted to interfere il
them, but that p,ocrastination on tn
part Of commanders and the pressure O
the people at the North, and of Congress
which, like the poor, he chad always witt
him." had forced him into ssuing hi
well.known series of Executive Orders.
He did not know but they were al
wrong, and did not know that some o
them were. All he wanted, or had eve
wanted, he said, was that some on
would take the responsibility and act
and call on him for all the assistanc
needed.