The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1885-07-30
DEATH OF GENERAL GRANT.
He Passes Peacefully Away After u
Struggle Of Nearly One Year.
All Members of the Family and Near
Relatives Present at the Last.
Biographical s1setch of the Deceased.

Biographical Sketch of the Deceased.
General Grant, after wrestling with dis
eases Tor nearly a year., breathed his lastin
the cottage at Mt. McGregor, about y
o'clock on the morning OF the 23d, sur
rounded by all members of the family, the
attending physicians and near relatives.
For several days previous to his death DR..
Douglass, the attending physician, became
convinced that the generals life was yery
near the close and so announced to mem
bers OF the family. Dispatches to the asso-
eiated press up to 4 o'clock on the morn
Eng OF the 23d announced the general as
rapidly sinking, but it was not until about
$50 that intelligence OF his death WAS
flashed over the country. About 9 o'clock
sc night the patient sank into a sleep that
was described by a witness as peaceful and
beautiful as the sleep OF a child. This con-
dltlon, however, was not one to command
confidence, for the pulse beats were rapidly
futtering and respiration which normally
Is IA to the minute was then A. At 3 a.
m. the general was in a somnolent condi-
ton. His respiration had grown shallow
and he was no longer able to expectorate
because OF weakness, which was constantly
increasing. Continuing in about this con-
dition-the particulars of which are given
elsewhere-he peacefully breathed his last,
succumbing to the disease with which he
had COPIED for nearly a year. Readers
everywhere are familiar with the life and
services of the deceased and will universal
3 mourn the departure Of a man who did
SO much for a nation that will honor his
memory as long as time shall last.
A BRIEF SKETCH OF GENERAL GRANTS CA
REER.
Ulysses S. Grant was born April 81,
1922, at Point Pleasant, Clermont county,
Ohio. His parents were of Scotch origin.
AT II young Grant entered West Point,
n four years later graduated t~wenty-irst
IN a class OF thirty-niEe, receiving a com-
mission OF brevet second lieutenant in the
Fourth infantry. He remained in the army
eleven years; was engaged in every battle
of the Mexican wal except that OF Buena
Vista, and received two brevets for gallant
conduct. In 1913 he married Julia,
daughter of Frederick Dent, a merchant OF
st. Louis, and in 1854, having reached the
rank OF captain, resigned, and went to
farming near st. Louis. Unsuccessful in
this he removed to Galena, H., in 1860,
and engaged in the leather business with
his father. Grant was 80 years old when
the civil war broke out entirely unknown
to public men, and without any personal
acquaintance with the affairs of the nation.
Lncoln's first call for troops was made
April Is, and on the 10Th inst. Grant was
drilling a company of volunteers at Ga
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adiutant general of the army but received
no reply. The governor of Illinois, how-
ever, employed him in organizing state
stroops, and five weeks later he was ap-
pointed colonel of the Twenty-first Illinois
infantry. He reported for duty in June to
Gen. Pope, in Missouri. On August z he
was commissioned a brigadier general with
put his knowledge, and for a short time
watched the movements OF factional forces
in Missouri. While in command of the
southeast district OF Missouri, with head
quarters at Cairo, Ills, on September 6,
without orders, he seized Paducah, at the
mouth OF the Tennessee river, and COM
manding the navigation OF hat stream
and the Ohio. This secured Kentucky to
the Union, for the state legislature, which
had affected to be neutral, at once de-
clared in favor of the government. In
November he made q demonstration on
Belmont, a small place on the Mississippi,
eighteen miles below Cairo. On the It'll
inst. he landed, and under a heavy fire
broke up and destroyed the camp. Re
turning to his transports he was confronted
with a largely superior force which he broke
through, capturing two cannon and 200
prisoners.
In 1862 he helped to capture Fort
Henry, February 4. On the 18th inst. he
besieged Fort Donelson with Is, 900 men,
the garrison numbering 1000. After
four days fighting the enemy surrendered
on the 18th with 65 cannon, II, 600 small
arms and IA, 653 soldiers. Four thousand
had escaped and $500 were killed and
wounded, while Grants loss was less han
1000. This was the first important union
victory. Grant was then made a major
general OF the VOLUNTEERS and placed in COM
mand of west Tennessee. In March his
or.es, numbering $4,000 men, we're ca.
camped near Shiloh, or Pittsburg landing,
on the Tennessee river, awaiting the arrival
OF General Buel with 10000 more. On
April 9th the confederates came from
Corinth and attacked Grant with a force
OF so, 900, now hoping to overwhelm him
before Buel's arrival. Grant was pushed
back to the river, where he held his posi-
tion until dark and the arrival OF Buel.
ON the 18th the enemy was driven back to
Corinth. a distance of t~wenty-nine miles.
Grant commanded both days.
On Nav Both Corinth wag attacked by
the e~onfede.ates. In July Halleck a
mo5e opneral-in-chief and Grant succeeded
~ ;n command of the department of
tennessee. September 10th he fought the
hattie of Iuka. which was an enmnia