Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1885-07-31

monuments will be both numerous and
costly.
He Was Resigned.
Gen. Grant knew that he could not
last long, and ON July I'll he wrote to
DIR. Douglass the following, the last
from his hand relating TO his condition:
Il ask you not to show this to any
one, unless to the physicians you con-
suit with. until the end. Particularly
want il kept from my family. II
known 10 one man, the papers will get
it and then my family will get it. 1t
would only distress them almost beyond
endurance to know it and by reflex
would distress me. ! have not changed
my mind since / wrote you before in
the same strain. Now, however, i
know that gain strength some days,
but when go back IT is beyond where
/ started 10 improve.
think the chances arc very decided
~ in favor fyOur being able tu keep
me alive until tie change Of weather
toward winter. OF course there are
contingencies that might arise ut any
time that would carry me of very
suddenly. The most probable Of these
is choking. Under the circumstances,
life is not worth the living. am very
thankful t''glad' had been written, but
scratched. and thankful substituted to
have been spared this long, because it
has enabled me to practically complete
the work i'm which take so much in
terest. cannot stir up strength to re-
view and make additions and subtrac-
ti0ns that would suggest themselves to
me and are not likely to suggest them
selves to anyone else.
Under the above circumstances will
he happiest the most pain can avoid.
II there is TO be any extraordinary cure,
such as some people believe there is TO
be. it will develop itself. would say,
therefore, to you and your colleague, to
make me as comfortable as you can.
II il is within Gods providence that
should go now, l am ready to obey his
call without murmer. should prefer
to go now TO enduring my present suff-
ering for single day without the hope
Of recovery.
AS have stated, am thankful for
the prOvidential extension of my time
to enable me to continue my work.
am further thankful because it has en-
abled me TO see for myself the happy
harmony which has 50 suddenly sprung
up between those engaged but few
short years ago in deadly conflict. 1t
has been an inestimate blessing to me
10 hear the kind express ions to-
ward me from persons in all parts of
the country, from people of all nation
alities, of all religions and of no relig-
ion, Of confederate and Of national
troops alike, OF soldiers organizations,
Of mechanical, scientific, religious and
other societies, embracing almost every
citizen in the land. They have brought
JOY to my heart, if they have not effect
ed n cure. So to you and your colleagues
/ acknowledge my indebtedness for
having brought me through the valley
of the shadow Of death to enable me to
witness these things.
US. GRANT.
Mt. McGrcgor, ". Y, July =.
His Life and Works.
General Grant was born at Point
Pleasant, Ohio, April ~, 1S22. lie en-
tered the military academy ut West
Point in 1889; graduated i'm 1913; receiv-
ed his commission as second lieutenant
in 1915, and served in the Mexican cam
paign under General Taylors and Scott.
In 1852 he was ordered to Oregon, and
in 1858 became a captain. lie resigned
his commission i'm July, 1854, and after
n residence OF four or five years in st.
LOUIS, removed in 1859 to Galena, ILL.,,
where he engaged i'm business with his
father and brothers. From this privacy
he was drawn out by the civil war, and
having acted first as aid-de-camp To the
governor Of Illinois in 1861; and after
wards as colonel Of the Twenty-iirst Ill
inOis volunteers, and made n brigadier
| general in July, 1851. While I'm COM
mand in Cairo he secured Paducah, and
with it Kentucky. In November, 1851
he fought the battle Of Belmont, and in
January, 1852, conducted Il reconnois-
sance to the rear of Columbus. Fort
Henry fell February 8. and ten DAYS
after Fort Donelson surrendered to him
conditiOnally, being followed by the
evacuation of Columbus and Bowling
i Green. lie was made commander of
Of the district of West Tennessee, and
his forces advanced up the river to
Pittsburg Landing, and fought, April
8 and I, the battle of Shiloh. at which
the confederate general, A. =. johnson.
lost his life. lie was second i'm com
mand to General IIalleck during the
seige OF Corinth. aud when the latter
was ordered to Washington, Grant was
appointed to take command of the de-
/ partment of Tennessee. lie captured
Nicksburg on the Mississippi July 4,
1868, and after the partial defeat of the
Union troops under General Rosecrans
ut Chickamauga, Tenn, IN September,
he was assigned to the lmmand of the
largely reinforced army, and in Novem-
Der defeated General Bragg at Chat
tanooga close by.
4, In March. 1864, President Lincoln
appointed him lieutenant general and
conferred on him the power of general
In chief of the vast armies in the field.
Invested with this authority. and hay
ing reorganized the armies of
the east and arranged with Gen
eral w. T. Sherman, the command
en- OF the army of the west, to move
against General j. Z. Johnston, at the
same time he moved against General
| Lee, he prepared for a Yigerons and