Connecticut western news., 1885-06-17
INTERESTING SKETCHES.
STORIES TOLD BY GENERAL GRANT
fin Ills New Book, the First Volume of which
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fin Ills New Book, the First Volume of which
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 Here is a funny story about Gen. Bragg, which Gen. Grant tells in his characteristically short and simple way:
 I have heard story in the old army very characteristic of Bragg. On one occasion, when stationed at 8 post of several companies, commanded by a field officer, he was himself commanding one of the companies, and at the same time acting Post Quartermastera and Con- missary. Hewas First Lieutenant at the time, but his Captain was detached on other duty. As commander of the com- pany, he made requisition upon the Quartermaster-himself-for something he wanted. As Quartermaster, he de- clined to fill the requisition, and endorsed on the back of it his reason for so doing. As company commander be responded to this, urging that his requisition called for nothing but what he was entitled to, and that it was the duty of the Quarter master to fill it. The Quartermaster still persisted that he was right. In this condition of affairs Bragg referred the whole matter to the commanding officer. The latter, when he saw the nature of the matter referred, exclaimed: "My God, Mir. Bragg, you have quarreled with yourself" Longstreet was an en- tirely different man.
 Here is one of his stories of his boy hood.
 There was Mir. Ralston living within few miles of the village, who owned a colt which l very much wanted. My father had offered $20 for it, but Ral- ston wanted $25. I was so anxious to have the colt that after the owner left I begged to be allowed to take him at the price demanded. My father yielded, but said $20 was all the horse was worth, and told me to offer that price !; if it was not accepted was to offer $22.50, and if that would not get him, to give the S25. I at once mounted horse and went for the colt. When I got to Mir. Ralston's house I said to him. "Papa says may offer you $20 for the colt, but if you won't take that am to offer $22.50, and if you won't take that, to give you $25." It would not require a Connecticut man to guess the price finally agreed upon. This story is nearly true. I certainly showed very plainly that had come for the colt and meant to have him. could not have been over years old at the time. I kept the horse until he was years old, when he went blind, and sold him for $20.
 A FRANK CONFESSION OF FRIGHT.
 As soon as the enemy saw us they decamped as fast as their horses would carry them. We halted at night on the road, and proceeded the next morning at an early hour. Harris had been encamped in a creek bottom for the sake of being near water. The hills on either side of the creek extend to a considerable height, possibly more than 100 feet AS we approached the brow of the hill from which it was expected we could see Harris's camp, and possibly find his men ready formed to meet us, my heart kept getting higher and higher, until it felt to me as though il was in my throat. I would have given anything then to have been back in Illinois, but I had not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do; I kept right on. When we reached a poinI from which the valley below WAS in full view I halted. The place where Harris had been encamped few days before WAS still there, and the marks of 6 recent encampment were plainly visible, but the troops were gone. My heart resumed its place. It occurred to me al once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as had been of him. This WAS a view of the question had never taken before; but it was one I never forgot afterward. From that event tC the close of the war never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy,
 This Is how the Genera describes hiE first meeting with President Lincoln
 I had never met Mir. Lincoln unti called to the capital to receive my com mission as Lieutenant General. l knew him, however, very well, and favorablyi from the accounts given by officer under me at the West, who had known him all their lives. I had also read the remarkable course of debates between Lincoln and Douglas few years before, when they were rival candidates for the United States Senate. I was then { resident of Missouri, and by no means 2 'LincoIn man" in that contest. But recognized then his great ability.
 In my first interview with Mir. Lincoln alone, he stated to me that he had never professed to be military man. or to know how campaigns should be conducted, and never wanted to inter. fere in them, but that procrastinatio1 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 well-known series ol "executive orders" He did not know but they were all wrong, and did know that some of them were. All ht wanted, or had ever wanted, he said, wa that some one would take the responsi bility and act, and call on him for al the assistance needed.
 A VIsTTAToN-A Coroner's jury il Lincolnshire, England, recently re turned the following verdict "We find that William Fisher came to his deatl by his own hand accidentally, and by nC other means, being at the moment en gagged in the unlawful pursuit of game il