St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-09

The first volume is completed and the sec
Ond nearly SO. The extracts given show
the work to be written i'll terse
and stuady Anglo-Saxon, with here
and there a. touch = Of quiet humOr.
The dedication is in fac Simile of the gen
erals manuscripts and reads as follows:
These Volumes are Dedicated to the :
American Soldier and Sailor.
U. S. GRANT. :
: New York, May %, 1854
......................
He began by saying that he is from Amer
ican stock, on both sides, tor many genera
lions. Matthew Grant. from whom he
is descended in the eighth generation,
reached Dorchester, Mass, in 1896, from
Dorchester, Eng. His great-grandfather,
Noah Grant, held a commission in the
British army, and his grandfather, also
named Noah, served in the war OF the Rev
olution. He gives anecdotes OF his boy
hood, and of his appointment to west
Point through Mr.. Morris, congressman
from Ohio, and tells the circumstances un-
der which he first saw Gen. Scott and
President Van Buren, contrasts the per-
sonal characteristics of Gems. Scott and
Taylor, gives a copy OF his letter to
Adjutant General Thomas, dated at Ca
lena May 2S, 1861, offering his services to
the United States, and suggesting that ne
considered himself competent to take COM
mand. This letter was never answered,
and was for long time lost among the
papers of the war Office. Speaking of his
first battle in the civil war he says: '.AS
we approached the brow of the hill from
which it was expected we could see Har-
riss' camp and possibly find his men ready
to meet us, my heart kept getting higher
and higher, until it felt to me as though
it were in my throat. | would have
given anything to have been
back in Illinois, but / had
not the moral courage to halt and consider
what to do. l kept right on, and when we
reached a point from which the valley below
was in full view, halted. The place where
HARRIS HAD BEEN ENCAMPED
a few days before was still there, and the
marks of recent encampment were visible,
but the troops were gone. My heart re-
sumed its place. This was view of the
question had never taken before, but it
was something never forgot afterwards.
From that event to the close of the war l
never experienced trepidation upon con-
fronting any enemy" He speaks of the battle
of Fort DonelsOn at some length. Speaking
of the battle of Shiloh, he says he
considered the situation as one in which the
federal forces were on the offensive, but
asserts that no precautions for defense were
neglected. On this subject he continues as
follows: "Gen. Beauregard was next in
rank to Johnston and succeeded to COM
mand, which he retained to the close Of the
battle and during the subsequent retreat on
Corinth, as well as on the siege of Corinth,
his tactics have been severely criticised by
Confederate writer's. But / do not believe
his fallen chief could have done any
better under the circumstances. Some
of these critics claim that Shiloh
was won when Johnston fell, and that if he
had not fallen the army under me would
have been annihilated or captured. Ifs de-
feated the Confederates at Shiloh. There
is little doubt that we should have been
diSgraeefull beaten if all the
SHELLS AND BULLETS
fired by us had passed harmlessly over the
enemy and if all of theirs had taken effect.
Commanding generals are liable to be killed
during an engagement, and the
fact that when he was shot
j Johnston was leading brigade to induce it
to make charge which had been repeatedly
Is cNItltllb UiltG IuClC was utlbIlCI
the unusual decentralization on our side nor
the mbounded confidence on theirs which
has been claimed. There was, in fact, no
hour during the day when [ doubted the
eventual defeat of the enemy, although l
was disappointed that the reinforcements,
so near at hand, did not arrive at an earlier
hour" In this connection he refers
to his article in the Century
lyci i,,i in nd 70
ID. McCook, which caused so much public
comment. He tells Of the long march of
the day before, over muddy roads, by Gen.
McCook's division, and of it's conspicuous
acts Of gallantry on the day of battle; and
concludes: Il refer to the circumstance
with minuteness because L did Gen. Nc
Cook
AN INJUSTICE
in the Century, though not to the extent
one would suppose from the public press.
l am not willing to do any one an injustice,
and if convinced that have done one am
always willing to make the fullest admis-
sion." Then follow accounts of the siege
and capture of VicksbuTg; of his appoint
ment of lieutenant general, and adds: ''In
my first interview with Mr.. Lincoln, alone,
he stated to me that he had never profeSSed
W NC d iHlitttl VI w
know how campaigns should be con-
Quoted, and never wanted to
interfere in them; but that procrastination
on the part of commanders, and the pressure
of the people at the North, and of congress,
which, like the poor, he ''had always with
him." had forced him into issuing his we'll
known series of executive orders. He did
not know but they were all wrong, and did
know that some of them were. All he
wanted or had ever wanted was that some
one would take the responsibility and act
and call on him for all the assistance needed.
Describing
HIS COMMAND,
of the division of the Mississippi, he tells
how he met Secretary Stanton at Indianap-
oils, how they went to Louisville, and adds:
''Soon after we started the secretary handed
me two orders, saying that l would take
my choice Of them. The two were identi-
cal but in one particular. Those created
the military division of the Mississippi,
giving NE the command composed of the
departments Of the Ohio, the Cumberland
and the Tennessee, and all the ter
ritory from Alleghenies to the
Mississippi river, north of Banks
command in the Southwest. One order
lett the department commanders as they
were, while the other relieved Rosecrans
and assigned Thomas to his place. l ac-
cepted the latter" He says Secretary STAN
ton caught a cold on that trip from which
he never recovered. He gives graphic
description of how Chattanooga was saved,
of how he was sent for in haste at night by
Secretary Stanton, whom he found pacing
the floor rapidly in about the garb
JEFFERSON DAVIS
was wearing subsequently when he was
captured-a dressing gown, but without the
shawl and sunbonnet. Gen. Grant adds:
''He showed me the dispatch saying that the
retreat must be prevented Immediately