Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-08-07

by COmmander-in-Chief Burdette
HEADQUARTERS GRAND ARMY OF THE
WASHINGTON, D. c., July "a, 1885.
GENERAL ORDERS!
Expressing the profound grief of his com
rades everyw here, the COmmander-1n-Chlef
reforms the duty of formally announcing
member of G orge G. Meanc Pot, No. |, De-
part n'ent of Pennsylvania, Grand Army of
the Repuhl e, which occurred at Mt. Mac
Greyor n. Y, on the 23d inst, at O'Clock
and nine minutes a. m.
Comrade Grant was born at Point Pleasant,
Ohio. April ~. 1892 ;entered the U: S Military
Academy at West Point, N. Y, July l, 1899,
and was graduated tnerefrom and appointed
By q d dfn puy s Prp %,
Lieut.. September s, lSi1, for rallant and mer,
itorious conduct in the battle of Moline del
gallant conduct Chapultepec; promoted LIST
Lieut.. September Ii. lS47 and Captain August
s. 1853 resigned July 81, 1854.
rebeli ne offered his services to his coun-
try W thout condition, and was commission 1a
ed Colonel, 2lst m. Vols : June 10, iSi Brig
Q. s. Vols February l6, 1862; Major-G General,
U. S. Army. July 4, 1868 Acknowledgement.
which lat commission he held until vacated,
March 4 1869, by reason of his inauguration
as Presii of the United States.
Upon the demand OF his CRATE III country
men, he was, on March 3, 1885, again made
General, o. $. Army, (retircd.) and SO died, as
was most fitting, with the harness OF his coun-
He bore the commission of the United States
in active service for nineteen years for seven
years he was in the presence OF actual war.
Measured by the number OF engagements
In which he participated; by the physical dif-
fcultes met and overcome by the numbers
engaged in actual battle under his leader
ship bv his mastery comprehension and
quick adaptation of the changing and there
tofOre untried conditions result ing from I'M
It ha.
strategic combinations he wisely conceived
and successfully guided and by the results
achieved for his country, for his c0untrymen,
for liberty and law everywhere, he was the
peerless soldier of his own age, AMI without
superior in any other.
His title TO a high place among the states
men of all time was established by the SUI
preme wisdom which, in the day of final
triumph, dictated those terms of surrender
healed the wounds of four years OF war.
Called 10y the imperative voice OF his fellow
citizens to the Office of President of the United
States for eight years he stood in their chief
place, and surren ering then his trust, left to
his successor country which IN every ee-
ment of present strength and promise of flu
ture prosperity and glory surpassed the dream
OF the most sanguine.
Seeking in travel abroad the rest and recrc-
alton he had so well earned, with only the title
OF American citizen to commend him, the
great in station, in learning and i'll achieve
ment of every land sought to DO nm honor
whilst the humble crowding his pathway. in
vOked for him the blessing which their empty
hands could not bestow.
The chief citizen of a Christian land, he
adorned the greatness of his public life by the
practice of those simple virtues which is the
fultlment of the law.
The sanctties of home-the chief pillars of
our state-found in him devOut observance
In other days the mothers of the land buidcd
affairs to such as he,
Consciously marching over the road where
only his footprints linger, and towards the
goal he has now reached, his comrades of the
Grand Army make to his memory this theii
last fraternal salutatlOn.
1t is recommended to Department Com
manders that II day he announced in Orders
upon which the Posts in their several jurisdic
tions may meet in open session, or otherwise
that each cOmrade may have opportunity Il
pay the tribute of respect his full hear
prompts.
Let the colOrs at National and Department
headquarters and of the Posts be draped, ant
the usual badge OF mourning be worn by al
comrades for sixty days.
by command of S. S. Burdette, Commander
in-Chief:
JOHN CAMERON, Adjutant-General
Headquarters Department of Vermont g. A. X
Burlington, vt. July 20, 1885.
w. l.. GREENLEAF, Depart. Com.
Offcia'.
JAMES II. GCULI.Y, Asst. Adj't. Gen.