Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-19
HARRISON SCOTT.
Death of the Man Who in ais Youth
Boyishiy RidicuIed Grant.

From, the Cincinnati &C numerical Gdsstte.
BATAVIA, o., May 5.-Hsrrison Scott,
at the age OF II, died in Bethel, the old
home of Grant, last week. He was a
member of the Fifty-ninth OHIO regiment
and the following anecdote is connected
with the old mans history:
Gen. Grant, in his memoirs, tells OF a
visit to his bOyhood home clad in the West
Point uniform and looking pert and dudi-
fed, and carrying the hearts of Bethel
girls by storm. At this period Harrison
was a boy, and engaged in the livery bus
mess as a stable boy. Seeing the cadets
delight in making a display, and DESTROYS
of lowering him notch or two, young
Harrison prepared calico suit, cut after
the style of the cadets dandy gray uni
form, in which he paraded the streets.
hooking Ulysses, much to his disgust
and chagrin. 1t was a cute, practical
joke and lowered the General then SEEM
1ngly bigoty feelings.
The Courier this week gives complete
account of Scott's history, and says the
following:
MANY years afterward Harrison was
on guard duty at Chattanooga; ratione
were scarce; the supplies were at Ste
phensOn. 40 miles away, and the roads
1ADUdb6dDlGt W WdkOB6s GN6E DONN was
hungry and, of course, ill-natured. While
Scott, leaning on his musket, was lament.
ing his hard lines he was approached by
mounted orderly, who asked ii he knew
a soldier by tue name of Harrison Scott
SCI am he,' said Scott, modestly.
"'Gen. Grant desires you to report Il
his headquarters at Once,' said the or.
derby. and rode away.
''ScOtts comrades chaffed him, and
wanted to know for what mischief the
General should send for him. Scott smiled
looked mysterious, and said, The General
desires to consult me as to the raising OF
the SIEGE In due time Harrison and
Ulysses stood face to face. Old times
were reviewed and q never-forgotten in.
terview to the private was held.
ION HarrisOn's rising to leave his
seat the General, knowing their famished
condition, said:
"'scott, did you bring your haver-
sackY
'Scott, who had taken great pains to
make himself presentable, and who, I'M
der no circumstances, could have been
prevailed upon to bring so dirty an object
as a greasy haversack. replied that he
had not, not deeming it necessary in a
consultation with the General. Grant
smiled as the CLEAN Of humor of the old
days passed over him, and, retiring, he
presently returned, bearing in his hand a
haversack filled with substantials and
luXuries, which he put in the soldiers
hands with pleasing remarks.
"In relating the incident Scott never
told what he said in reply, though it is
probable he only looked his thanks with
grateful tears. Thus for brief hour the
bridge of etiquette that divided the two
was swept aside, and the true manhood
of each was made manifest. Later all
the bridges, social, military, financial
and moral have been swept away, and
the same rough mother that performs the
last Offices for her children has covered
both with the same mantle, and the Gen.
eral and the private sleep peacefully to.
gether, awaiting, in the grand dignity OF
death, the sweet strains OF the reveille
that shall summon all TO the Heavenly
Master"