Milford chronicle., 1885-04-10
THE CAREER OF GRANT.

THE CAREER OF GRANT.
From Humble Life 10 the Foremost MIL
ltury Figure of the Latter Part Of tho
Nineteenth Century.
When the echoed OF the guns that crushed
the walls Of Fort Sumpter tWenty-four years
ago rolled NOrthward there lived in Galena,
| ILL.,, an eX-captain Of inf8ntry in the regular
| army. The ex-captain offered his services 10
the Government, which was to reap such profit
/ from them. They we're accepted, and Captain
/ Ulysses Simpson Grant, born at Point
| Pleasant, Ohio. on April "a, 1922 graduated at
/ West Point in 1913 and became a veteran by
service under Taylor and Scott in Mexico, was
| appointed colonel Of a neWly-organized reg
/ iment Of Illinois volunteers
He was soon advanced TO the Office of briga-
| der general Of volunteers and assigned to the
command Of the forces assembled at Cairo
Ill. His important active services began al
most at once. On September 6, 1861, he seized
Paducah, at the mouth Of the Tennessee. and on
the 25th, Smithland, at the mouth Of the Cum
berland. With these two important strategic |
points in hand he, month later, fought the |
battles at Fredericktown, NO., and Belmont. |
which checked the advance Of General JEFF /
Thompson. In February, 1862, his district Of |
command having been greatly enlarged, he /
made the advance from Paducah which led 10 /
the fall of Forts Henry and Donelson within
ten days Of each other.
The capture Of Fort DOnelson was the first
important brilliant victory Of the war. It
made the victor a major general. The turning
Of the battle Of Fittsburg Landing from
Confederate victory to a Federal triumph
followed, and brought General Grant his first
wound during the war. His command Of the
Department Of the Tennessee, upon the re-
moval of General Haleck to Washington and
his defeat of General Price at Iuka, were fol-
lowed by the enlargement Of his department
to include Vicksburg, which he made an ap-
prOpriate present to the nation, on July 4. 1868
General Grants commission was now trans
terred to the regular army and he was placed !
III command over the departments under |
Thomas, Burnside and Hooker. The |
defense OF Chattanooga, which brought abont |
the driving Of Bragg from Missionary Ridge | ,
and Lookout Mountain and the famous battle !
in the clouds, made him lieutenant general, !
the title having been revived by the same Con- ,
gress which ordered gold medal struck in his :
honor and conferred on him by President Lin =
,Oln. He received his commission from the =
hands of the President in Washington, re- I
turned without delay to Tennessee, and is n I
sued his first general order as commander on
March l2, 1864, announcing that his head !
quarters would be in the field or until further 4
'rders, with the army of the Potomac. =
The fanking operations having failed, the
lege OF Petersburg was Gen. Grants next re- | -
OF, ana~When il fell, on April I'd, 1865 the n
icy OF the situation was in his hands. The n
urrender of the army yof Gen. Lee at Appomatox ~
ollOwed, and the COnfederacy was dead and y
Ulysses s. Grant the hero of the day. u
At the termination Of the Presidency Of | y,
.ndrew Johnson, he succeeded him, d, feating !"
Governor Seymour by 214 Electoral votes to u,
O. He was reelected in 1872 by 2s6 votes nv
His tour of the world after his second term 1,
as such triumph as no monarch had ever | -
njoyed. The nations exhausted themselves A.
] heaping hOnors on him. His progress was a.
ne of imperial magniicence in the cere- e.,
onials which attended it, and kept him so ~
before the public that on his re- -
I'm the Republican party deemed him strong -
lough to undertake third candidacy for the ,r
but while evineing very great X,
rength in the Republican National COnven- ~
on, the General was defeated. nj nj
Thereafter General Grant bgq{- Ale familiar 70.
'iilla2 nc eg.'Aas az ~ = i3saksHe -
(, tWe1d. iFoufth ltr$ 1tr aba tirhs I,fTIIS(
- .nat tRes ,oybcame al /, - E.4s3s 5sl1
~ which business circ,eB Of New York. g, ..,,ar
slnterested in certain railroad and other \
ancial movements, and had an Office in pri
al street. His public life had left him res
.sonably wealthy man, what with his savings one
d the gifts of his admirers among the peo- .
J. His daughter Nellie had made marriage the
III a wealthy English gentleman, Mr.. Sar- her
is and one of his sons had married the as
tighter Of q California millionaire. are
lie lived in splendid comfort, and 1t seemed
1t his declining years were destined to be
him when the tremendous failure Of Grant
Ward, in which his son Ulysses was an active 7
he a silent partner, brought his whole ",
tune down amid the ruins. II
The failure of Grant & Ward swallowed all D,1
accumulations except the S25O,001 sub = 6le
ibed for him by certain wealthy citizens, ~, ~,
which was invested for his benefit beyond DG DGT
reach of disaster. AmOvement was inaug IN
lted in Congress to restore him to the rank -
pay ia the army which he had surrendered
Ills nomination for the Presidency, and D. y
,ried, after much opposition, at the end Of %
last session. W.
hi June last. while at his Long Branch cot flr
,e, the general had been much troubled by n
mysterious affection of the throat A con- r.
tation with physician led to the apphca- .-;Il
u ol some tSoSi go ~ ~ NIL ~ Car
lke out with renewed violence in October
consulted with DR.. FOrdyce Barker who at
ce detected symptoms Of cancerOus growth
directed him 10 a specialist in throat dis
es, DR.. ]. II. Douglas, of As East 26th dOl
eet wit
DR.. Douglas advised him to stop smoking l;fo
ldually but he soon teased it altogether ~
felt much better for it. His hip, which ne
been injured by a fall on Dec. "a, 1888 to
improved so much that he was able to take hui
lg walks In December he took cold during on
E of the walks, and went back to DR., Doug a.
He was then almost unable to speak and az
ate with great difficulty. The root OF the eve
lgue was hardened, and there were thick hin
tches on the soft palate, accompanied by by
,ht liberation. He had considerable pain, \
ich was relieved by application OF muriate ont
cocaine and iodoform. on'
Ie became much better, and got along well wa
Ill in February he experienced a serious re- not
se. The news Of his illness then became tba
bic, and its progress found daily record in hin
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