The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-07-30
DEATH OF GEN. GRANT.
An Order by the Commander.in.C Chief.


HEADQUARTERS GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC,
WAsHINGToN, ID. c., July "A, 1885.
General Orders. No 3.
Expressing the profound grief of his comrades
everywhere, the COMMANDMENTS Chief performs the
duty of formally announcing the death of Comrade
Ulysses S. Grant, late member of George g. Meade
Post, No. i, Department of Pennsylvania, Grand
Army of the Republic which occurred at Mt. Nc
Gregor, \. T., Oh the I'D inst at O'Clock and nine
minutes a.
Comrade Grant was born at Point Pleasant O.,
April q. 1S22; entered the u. s. Military Academy
al West Point, n. ", July ], 1882 and was gradu-
atcd therefrom and appointed Brevet Second Lieu
tenant, 4ih Inf, July l. 1913; promoted Second
Lieutenant Sept 30, 1875; brevetted First Lieuten-
ant Sept s., lsf7 for gallant and mertorious con-
duct in the battle of holino Del Rey, Mexico and
Captain, Sept 3 1877. for gallant conduct at Cha
pultepec promoted First Lieutenant Sept. 16, 1917,
and Captain Aug. s. 1853 resigned July 81 1854.
Upon the breaking out OF the of the rebel
lion be offered his services to his country without
condition. and was commissioned Colonel 2ist H.,
June To- 1851: Brigadier General. Aug. s. 1851 Ma
jor-Genera u. ;. Vols Feb. lC, 1867; Major Gem
eral, U. S. "A, July 4, ls63; Lieutenant General
March 1864, and General July Is, 1866 which last
commission he held until vacated, March 4, 1862
by reason of his inauguration as President of the
United States.
Upon the demand of his grateful countrymen he
wac, on March 3, 1885, again made General, u s.
Army. (retredD and so died, as was most fitting,
with the harness of his country upon him.
He bore the commission Of the United States in
active service for 10 years for seven years he
In the presence OF actual war.
Measured by the number of engagements in
which lac participated; by the physical difficulties
met and overcome; by the numbers engaged in
actual battle under his leadership; by his mastery
comprehension and quick adoption of the changing
and heretofore untried conditions resulting from
improvements in arms; by the vastness Of the
strategic combinations he wisely conceived and
successfully guided; and by the results achieved
for has country for his countrymen for liberty and
law everywhere, he was the peerless soldier of his
own age, and without a superior in any other.
His title TO q high place among the statesmen of
all time was established by the supreme wis iom
which, iii the day of final triumph, dictated those
terms of surrender which in the compass of an hour
wellnlgh healed the wounds of four years of war
Called by the imperative voice of his fellow cii-
zens 10 the Office of President of the United States
for eight years he stood in their chief place and
suTrendering then his trust left to his successor
country which in every element of present strength
and promise OF future prosperity and glory sur
passed the dream Of the most sanguine
Seeking in travel abroad the rest and recreation
he had well earned with only the title of Ameri-
can citizen to commend him. the great in station
Ia learning, and In achievement of every land
sought 10 do him honor, whilst the humble, crowd
ing his pathway, invoked for him the blessing
which their empty hands could not bestow.
The chief citizen OF christian land, he adorned
the greatness of his public life by the practice of
those simple virtues which IL the fuflment Of the
law.
The sanctites of home-fhe chief pillars Of our
Battle-Ground in him devou. observance. In other