The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-18
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THE LITERATURE OF BATTLES.
Gen. Grant Familiar with the Plans and
Deta Is of Great Contests.
New York Herald Interview

New York Herald Interview
Grant was fond of teasing people,
If Giving nicknames and the like, " re-
snHed Mr.. John Russell Young. 81
baI one among the others. l have
) bparl him tease Sheridan, tease Sher-
man. tease anybody about him. l have
hard him gravely argue in his own
library that Sheridan, whom he loved
like son. and whose genius he re-
garded as equal to that Of Napoleon,
had never fought battle in his life,
but had hired a couple of Herald re-
rorters to 90 with him and write up
imaginary battles. Sheridan would
sit by, bIushing like a woman, but
Grant, pretending not to be aware of
3 Ibis presence would go on to argue in
support OF his allegation.
There is an impression that Grant
was not well skilled in the art of war,
anu that what he did was done in a sort
Of haglaZard way; that his plans and
actions were governed by common sense,
. bQ that what IS known as the high art of
war was unknown to kim. | happen to
know how untrue this is. | remember
In crossing the Pacific ocean giving
Grant Victor HugOs novel, Les Miser-
abeS, to read He read it very slowly,
almost like a man who is studying
rather than reading. For two or three
days We aid not see him except at meals.
Ole evening" about II O'Clock, | was
Walking along the deck Just before re-
urIng when Grant dOOr-he had a
deck cabin-Opened and he came out
and said, All alone! said Yes.
We'll, he said, Il feel like walking;
Will 90 and bring some cigars. He
came back with a handful, which he di-
Tded with me, and l said, DO you
IKE your book" He replied, Yes, very
much
Il never liked to talk with Grant
about war matters, because he had a
curious aversion to it; but was anxious
70 know what he thought of Hdgo's ac-
count Of the battle of Waterloo, which is
a famous passage in his novel. Sol said:
General, what do you think of the bat
|ue OF Waterloo, as told by Hugo?' 1T is
IA Very fine account, he replied. Then
ne Went on to detail, in the most mi
kHu'e manner, what the battle of Water
GGO meant. He went into the caliber of
que guns, the length of lines of the op-
PoSaIlg armies; the troops engaged
81 TT, infantry, cavalry; the tactics
~ ~ u " dPoleon and of Wellington; what led
~ - Inc attack on Napoleon part and the
the defeat by Wellington.
Nnat do you think of WaterlooH I
a 1Ea1 a, MIN. 4 think, he responded, 1T
was was the finest planned battle of Ma
t kO"l .he best conceived battle that
6 6apn Of, and nothing but Providence
t ing against him defeated him. From
cra. waking up and down the deck.
nn I"uI went on to describe all of Ma
dd oTU campaigns, from Marengo
IN r'% VI. 70 LeipSlc, speaking of each battle
r.. 'uS s uloSt minute manner-the num-
t fSo u u. men engaged on either side: even
If :J bo o%nse OF their guns and the tactics
wb VO'u sides; why victory came and
rs oa!!- defeat came, as thoroughly
naticS &S a problem in mathe-
Frp5 iCS =, men back to the battles of
1ai ineIl lt the Great, Leuthen, the cam
q fba o Vi the Thirty Years War, back
lIn lstV vta;ulPalgns of Caesar, and always
md cbo ,InS as ne talked, the progress
nac6 6;n"uSe IN the art of war. and how
nS srti.iiefy' pro ectiles and improve
groo. III arms had made what wonld he
,o :, ?at victory for Napoleon almost inn.
hat Con now. 1t simply meant this.
Ugn' Grant, with his marvellous
'ont ,! oI nad not forgotten his West
Tear oo euucatlon. In addition TO his
ons If TfS Inon sense he knew the les
raj tb ba war as completely as any gen
CEASE" %' ever lived. 1t is the ONLY
Deal s'o of t On which ever heard Grant
AVE said me !. art OF war, because, as |
ad s en 1t was a subject to which he
nown "I hi aversion. You might have
hat he I b5 Tor year and never learn
""u fought battle in his life"
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