Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-17

! slgn-marked ms power or presaged his then
| freemen! in whose unpretentious homes in
| wise contentment, despising pomp and AnOw,
and ready for any e1Fence Wb ba as ne the
perilous conjecture. whether the alarms of
war demand the conquering General. ar giant
Chief Magistrate, lol there is he found.
Heaven-marked for choice, among the Rs
But the soul of this plain man Of Illinois
was tuned on the highest kew of manhood.
the Nations cost and enjoyed a subaltern's
experience in its army. He recognized his
duty, and instantly responded by the profrer
was the fortunate penetration Of others
| which gave him first a regiment and then a
Brigadiers commission. There followed the
long and ANXIOUS months of gathering and
| preparation From our bad beginning hope
full antic idnt Of quick result had disap.
the vaStness of the territory and forces to be
vanquished seemed APPALLING; nowhere prog
the public mind was heavily oppressed Who,
| who. and where is he. who shall1ead the army
of our rescuet was the question which tor.
mented thought. while clouds of doubt and
| gloom hung over all.
Upon sudden, the unexpected thunder of
artillery reverberated on the sky from far-otr
| Tennessee, and, voicing all the Nation pray
! ers and hope, rung the victor Gus demand of
the unknown citizen of Galena TO his coun.
| surrender. l propose TO move Immediately
on your works Soon Shloh's two days
| DaLIl0 came ana through the desperate and
| bloody turmoil of that first great held-fight
| Grants unbending spirit held commanding
sway. and, prophetically representing the
| field of the entire war he wrought through
| the threatened rum to complete victory. The
| country saw it's desired leader now but mill
about him. and fettered his ascendency. New
| er were the riches of his character more clear
| and useful. The true patriot. he disturbed
| by no clamor the cares and counsels of those
| above him; able to grandly lead. he was hon.
estly subordinate; nobly patient. he wrought
| for is 1fryyo a;r~t~t
| ed for his day.
! 1T came: Restored to command, he was
nable town, intrenched on the curving hills,
detiantly and securely guarding the great
highways of Confederate supply from the
| rich Southwest. Nature had made its access
by an army from the North practically impos-
sble, and even if successfully approached it
| compared the two by observation affirm Sebas.
tapol to have been weaker in defensibility.
essayed to approach it with his army by
devise: In vain. Nature lent her appar
ent aid to discOmtit him; in truth, to
! press from his undaunted brain it's most glor-
| ious conception Casting Off the chains of
Of genius, he gathered his s'G reliant ,in men
| around him. intrepdly cut loose from supply
or snccor, sPrang suddenly across the great
the foe on the held Of FortGibson. and thereby
| Grand Gulf fell; Then, like the rapid light
son, at Champions Hills at the Black
river, he hurled the bolts of war on this side
and on that against the amazed and divided
adversary, won the four battles in six days,
| and drove the routed fragments within their
ramparts. his cOrralled prisoners of war.
Having now securely re-established COM
municaton by the river, he was able to re-
order to forbear attempting the campaign he
had won. Bless Heaven for the difference
the and the # in 5e
Grant to make his country. u birthday gift of
Vicksburg. with more guns and prisoners than
| ever before were yielded with a captured
city. 1t discovered the Confederacy, and,
| with Meades concurrent victory, first gave
| Europe perception OF the probability of
Northern triumph.
Hardly was he breathed, another hercu-
lean labor waited Holly they cried to him
| Cumberland. Overpowered on the field of
Oh. ckamauga, it lay in Chattanooga at bay,
watched and guarded by the victorious and
confident enemy from the crests of the mount
aims above, starvation or surrender its seem
| ing alternative Still on crutches from
cent injury, riding sometimes on his horse
and sometimes borne through dangerous
paths BY the arms of his men. there fastened
silent man Of illinois, with the lions heart
and Minerva brain. Immediately the front
of things was changed. Rapid dispositions
mentS obeyed his call. among them Sherman
| with the Army, of the Tennessee And al.
most before he had ceased to expect it's sur
render. the exultant enemy was by that be.
leaguered army swept from the cloudy
heights of Missionary ridge and sent flying
| And the gate was opened for the grand cam
paign to Atlanta and Shermans renowned
march down to the sea.
1.-The man of destiny was found. Raised to
supreme command, he seized the whole vast
engnery of the war. and in harmonious CO.
operation the mighty forces responded to his
will. l may not protract the story through
its enhancing details. Apportioning to his
he entered the lists with Lee. The giants
grappled and never parted from the fight. 1t
was worthy Of both and stands s 9negua!ed'
acity and ferOcity. Within year 1t ended
| and the great rebellion fell, crushed to utter.
abject ruin.
study the timeliness and effect of his vic.
| tories; the cheer of DOnelson to the cOuntrys
dropping spirit; what, without him, Shiloh
! ton OF those beside him and the command of
those above him. he drove the rending wedge
| federacy in twain: the peril and the rescue of
the armies at Knoxville and Chattanooga:
| consider the fate of all before him who had
attempted the attack of Lee on his own famil-
| lar ground; recall the desperate need of haste
to the burdened country, and the chances for
even a year or two: and tell me if, without
Grant. the Republics victory stood assured?
If. still you say might the Union have with
and wealth of at least another year of war.
Bethink We. then, who in this grand metropo-
| lis keep the keys of the countrys wealth,
what would now have been your comparative
condition had Heaven not vouchsafed him to
Hudson deserve from you, right soon, apprO-
DR. ate cOmmemOratOn of the mighty dead it
covers? View the colossal riches piled along
your streets the granareS of the continents
prosperity. and say if your necessity be not
pressing. lest that sacred grave. in want of
fitting honor, become monument to your
reprOach.
.'Unpretentous but herioc in daring and
fortitnde, skiillfully intelligent in military
learning, and gifted with intuitive genius to
D receive conditions and create new forms;
with the inner light that truly forecasts is
sues. his iron resolution never failing i'll calm
soldier of liberty. And, beyond his soldier
ship, he was great and noble man. He met
on equal terms half the ROYALTY of earth he
heard the plaudiuS of the world he suffered
false report. and never lost his Se.f-cOntro or
broke his silence He never failed in friend
ship, though he experienced the crueleSt be-
trayal of his trust. No profane word or i'm
day is dumb in presence of his certain glory,
for to him was the promise of the great
sermon: blessed are the pure in heart, for
wrapped in the sweetest love of family,
his heart was big with love of his fellow-men.
He knew the spirit of the cause he led and the
necessities of the victory he won. Sad pity
moved him. not exultaton, in that very hour
when final triumph gave the finish to his mar
tal crown. He thought not of himself. the
assured idol of undying renown, but of them
who bore the agony of defeat. He forbade
the guns of victory to sound humiliation to
their ears; and kindly counseling their fut-
ure he left their private goods to the soldiers
of the ruined army and encouraged them to
the fruition of his hope in the new era OPEN
ing to his country, even in the rack OF tort
ure he spoke the supremest glory of his work
to the first of the great antagonists he over
have witnessed since my sickness just what
wished to see ever since the war-hQrmOny