News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30
GEN. JOHN A. LOGAN DEAD.
He Passes Away Quietly Sunday
Afternoon.

Afternoon.
John A. Logan died at his home in
Washington at :57, Sunday after
noon. His death, which came with
startling suddenness to his family and
friends, had not been unexpected by
his physicians for some days. The
lurking tendency to brain complica-
tions, which had been present in
greater or less degree and constantly
increasing in severity during his en-
tire illness, and had prepared them to
expect the worst. The racking pains
which he suffered during the early
days of his illness yielded to treatment,
but left him in weak and exhausted
condition from which he never rallied,
and upon which the fever preyed with
increasing violence until the hour Of
his death. After midnight Saturday,
his pulse grew weaker and weaker,
and at o'clock Sunday morning his
condition was such as to cause great
fear of his immediate death. After
this he rallied somewhat and at the
consultation in the morning his pulse
was found to be somewhat stronger,
but his general condition was not such
as to give any hope of ultimate recov-
cry. DIR. Baxter relieved DR.. Ham
ilton at the conclusion of the consul
tation, and continued in constant at
tendance until Gen. Logan's death.
Al 2 o'clock the General revived suf-
ficiently to recognize his wife, who
was at his bedside night and day dur
ing his entire illness. AS she spoke
to him he looked up into her face and
recognized her. This was the last
manifestation of consciousness. He
then YEARLY closed his eyes and sank
again into a lethargic sleep from
which he never woke.
The illness which ended in the death
of Gen. Logan first manifested itself
two weeks ago, when he began to feel
rheumatic twinges in the right wrist
and arm. Almost at the first touch
of pain the hand and arm commenced
to swell, and Gen. Logan said to his
family that he was afraid he would
have to go through another attack OF
his old-time enemy, the rheumatism.
None of the family, and Gen. Logan
least of all, felt the slightest appre-
he.sion as to the result. He had Of
ten battled with much more serious
attacks of rheumatism than his arm
seemed to indicate was upon him then :,
and while they had sometimes left him
veiy weak, his strong constitution,
and, as he thought, inexhaustlble vi
laIity, had always enabled him to
quickly recover his usual health.
SKETCH OF SENATOR LoGAN's CAREER.
John A. Logan was born of Irish par
entage in jackson County, ILL.,, Feb. 8,
1926. The infrequent sessions of the
school in the new settlement where he
lived led his father to take upon himself
his early education.
Upon the declaration of war between
the United States and Mexico he vOlun-
teered, was made lieutenant of the First
Illinois Infantry, and was for time
adjutant of his regiment. AT the close
of the war he studied law with his
uncle, Alexander NJ. Jenkins. In 1919
he was clerk of Jackson County. Sub
sequently he completed his legal studies
at the Louisville University, and was
admitted to the bar in 1852.
In the year of his graduation he was
elected to the State Legislature, and in
the next to the Office of prosecuting
attorney of the third judicial district,
holding the office till 1857. He was re-
elected to the State Legislature in 1858,
1856 and 1857, and was presidential cleo
tor on the Buchanan and breckenridge
ticket.
In 1853 and 1860 he was elected repre-
sentative at Congress. In July, 1861 l.,
he left his seat in the extra session OF
Congress, and joined the Union troops
on their way to the disastrous battle of
Bull Run, and was one of the last to
leave the field. He was made colonel
of the Thirty-First Illinois Infantry in
September, and in November met the
foe at Belmont. where his horse was
shot beneath him during q successful
bayonet charge. He led the charge on
Fort Donelsun, was wounded, and COM
PEELED to leave the field for several
Grant at Pittsburg Landing, and was
appointed brigadier-geneIa of vOlun-
teerS.
During the summer of 1862 he was
urged to run for Congress, but replied :
4" have entered the field to die, if need
be, for this government, and never eX-
pect to return to peaceful pursuits until
the object of this war of preservation
has become a fact established" His
bravery in Grants Northern Mississippi
movements met with promotion to the
rank of major-general. At VickSburg
his column led the entrance ON June
I'D, and he was the first military gov
ernOr. He succeeded Sherman at the
head of the Fifteenth Army Corps in
November, 1868, and, when Mcpherson
lost his life on the 22d of July, Logan
succeeded him and commanded the
Army of the Tennessee with the same
ability and success which had charac-
teriZed his command of smaller num-
bers. He was with Serman on his
8 March to the Sea-" remaining with
him until JohnSton'S surrender.
From the close of the war until 1871
he occupied various positions of honor.
In 1874 and 1879, and again in 1885, he
was elected Senator from Illinois. In
1884 he was the Republican nominee for
vice-president on the ticket with Mr..
Blaine.
Senator Logan has played prominent
part in the political history of the United
States during the last twenty-five years.
HerOism and courage, elOquence and
ability ora attrih1tac bic noccacciop of