The weekly Arizona miner., 1885-07-24
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 Sssty -eSrse years, tso months and tssnty-six days on ssrth. and then etsr- nsi si-e,. eios-s ths cs-eer of one of the grestest meu of ancient or modern simss. Uiyses s. Grant, born ss Point Pleas. sut, Ohio, April 27tb. 1922, has joined the Grand Army. where all mankind, in . fev short years, must follow, and from whence none return.
 General Grant. yho breatLed his last as eight minutes pest eight o'clock this morning .t Mount McGregor, vas of Scotch parent.se, and passed his boy hood days At Georgetown, Ohio, from which plane Ae entered West Poia: Military Academy in 1889 at the age of l7 years During his course st the academy he showed great pro6ci-ncy in mathema- -ic.. and in lss3 graduated He wss sent immediately to the front, at that time Missouri being the western ou'rostA In lS45 Le vent with his regiment of in fantry, the 4:h, to Texas, wnrre he joined General Taylor. then preparing to enter Mexico. In lsi6 he partieip ted ip the iaftles of PsLo Alto, Rrsac. de Ia Palma, and Monterey and the seize of Vera Cruz, and in 1877 was promoted for gaiiantry anf again in the same year ~as promoted to . captaincy for great bravery under Col John G4rlx,'d, at the battle of Cha puitep~c. After the capture of the City of Mexico he retarned with has regiment and was stationed at Detroit, Michigan, sud at Sacketts Harbor. N Y. In.}s4s hs married Mia Dent, of St. Louis, and in 1852 ~as assigned to duty in California and Oregor. In 1854 he resigned the straps and removed to St- Louis, where he became interested in the real rstAte business and ths cultivation of D farm near that city, until 1859 ~her. he vas employed by his father at Galena, III. in the leather business
 At the breaking out of the great civil war, which thrtatened to destroy the ,randest Republic known to civilized Ages, he volunteered his services and was Colonel of an Illinois regiment, md in the same year was made Bisadier commanding at Cairo. He oc- :upied PsiucAh ,i.d led an expedition on :he Mississippi In 1862 he distinguished himself in the capture of Fort Donelson ,n the Tennessee River and was male Brigadier General. He was at Pittsburs Landing and the great battle of Shiloh He succeedei General Hal.eck, com handing the land forces, which, in con- uuction with the navy, reluced vicks- ourn July 4, 1863. soon followed by the 'all of Fort Hudson and the opening If he Mississippi. In September, be was made Lieutenant General and succeeded n the command of the whole Union orccs, the grandest army ever arrayed against civilizel foe, resulting in the all of Richmond and the surrender of he Confederate forces under General Lee, 'ir tually ending the great rebellion, wherein was arrayei father against son. nd brother against brother. After the lose of the grea. civil contest be was made, hy an act of Congress, General Of he Army of the United States. Daring lis whole crreer through the rebei..on he never asked for favor or promotion, re- yins upon merit entirely for reward.
 h 1868 he was elected President of he United States, an office he held sith horor and distinction for eight ears; and in this position, like that of oldier, he came out without error or ault, holding . place in the hearts Of is countrymen hardly less exalted than hat so long held by Washington, the atber of his country.
 All over this vast republic where the sars and stripes float before the breez, Imericaa sorrow will go out for the reatest G..nersl that. ever lived. Hi, ask xas given him on earth; he fulfilled is m;ssion--he Is not dead, but sleeps-i nd the Nation, the E giandest upon the acc of the earth. weeps. Here in Pres ots, the flag hangs at hslf-mast; the bell ! as soIled the knell of the departed hero, ni one and all, without distinction as 9 race, color or creed, with one accord Ay farewali, ,,.oa good and faithful ser ant, whose last days have been of great af5.ring. yet borne with bravery and -ithout murmur Fare thee well.
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