The Yellowstone journal., 1893-04-15
TIE MATCH FAILED.
NELLIE GRANT S ROMANCE WHILE
VISITING AT WEST POINT.

!
Her Father II al IA Few Months Before Bee,
Inauguratsd President Of the Unite,
States. and She Was In Consequence til,
Belle of the Gatherings.
1t was the closing week of commence
nent exercises at the military academy
IN June, 1869. and historic West Poin
} had never appeared more brilliant. Dis
tinguished guests from all over thu
country We're assemble to witness tht
ceremonies. and the wealth and fashion
OF New York. Brooklyn. Boston, Phila
delphia, Baltimore, Washington and
other cities crowded Roe's and Cozzen's
hotels and the private cottages to their
fullest capacities. First and foremost OF
all those there was the newly inaug,,-
rated president of the United States,
Ulysses 5. Grant. then in the splendor
OF his fame. Then there was General
William I. Sherman, his successor in
command of the army; General Rufus
ingalls,. General Quincy Gilmore and a
host OF lesser military chieftains and
also the officers of the academy resplen-
dent in uniform. besides many civic dig
| nitaries.
! Mrs. John A. Dix and Mrs. John Bige-
low occupied cottages AZ CCzzen's, and
| the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was
| present to deliver the S rmon to the
| graduates. The giories and the chivalry
| OF West Point still clung to it and made
1t an attraction to the fair sex. Benny
Havens, with its many legends of clan
destine cadet revelries. yet remained at
the rivers edge. The faculty were all
noted gray haired professors who had
been engaged in tutoring future military
heroes for half "A century, some of them.
Their dean was Denis Mahan. professor
OF mathematics, who was afterward TO
seek suicides death in the Hudson
river
President Grant was accompanied to
the academy by Mrs. Grant and their
daughter, Nellie Grant. The presidents
son, Frederick Dent Grant, was a cadet
IN the third class, and for that reason
the exercises had special attraction for
the members of the Grant family. Gen
eral Thomas &. Pitcher, the superin-
tendent of the academy; Colonel Henry
NJ. Black. the commandant of the cadet
corps: Lieutenant Colonel John NJ.
Hlldt. who was wooing at the time Miss
Jerome. a daughter of Leonard Jerome.
and whom he afterward married; Ed
ward {. Boynton, the adiutant of the
post. and the rest of the officers had pre-
pared an elaborate and interesting pro-
gramme for the commencement. and
during the week or longer that President
Grant and his family were at the Point |
there was mortar practice. signal service |
movements, the building of pontoon
Bridges, cavalry maneuvers and other |
object lessons in the art of war. with
pafades every afternoon on the plateau
by the battalio. II cadets. and a concert
lfterward by the government band
Among the junior officers of the su-
perintendent's staff was John E. Hosner
lieutenant of infantry, who was as
signed as escort to the president and his
family during their stay at West Point.
tie was Il native of Massachusetts. of
good family and attractive personal ap-
1earance. The daughter of the White
iouse, Miss Nellie Grant. was new to
ociety in the east, and the Young lieu
enant devoted much time to her enter
He was her daily chaperon
'ver the military grounds and explained
o hef the many points Of historic inter
st there He arranged private eater-
ailments and parties III her honor at the
'ouses of the professors. while old dow
gers. with little else to do than watch
assing events, noted the growing init
lacyo OF the daughter of the White House ,
nd the junior lieutenant. looked on the
Dung couple approyingly and said to
ach other. "A match, sure" :
The commencement Of the academy
arinlnated on the evening of Saturday. ,
une H. with the ball of the graduating
lass at Roe's hotel. 1t was a brilliant
and in the opening quadrille
here was conspicuous set composed OF
resident Grant and Miss Strother Of
Washington. General Sherman and Mrs.
rant, Lieutenant Hosmer and Miss Mel
e Grant and Colonel Audepdried, chief J
General Sherman's staff. and Miss
,inzey, a southern belle. The grizzled /
ero of the march to the sea had his ewes
pen to what was going on, and in one 4
the pauses Of the dance said to his
artner Mrs Grant. in his quick. abrupt :
ay. what the dowagers had previously .
Looks like match" nod :
ing with his head toward Miss Grant
nd her lieutenant escort. Mrs. Grant
al her eyes opened. :,
The next day Sunday Nellie Grant re- Il
aimed in seclusion in the hotel. and ID
'1ght and early on the following Mon "a
~ mornin% was hurried away by her II
other to Wilmington. y while the rresi- b, b
mt DEPART. for the east in response to D
lblic invitations. Lieutenant Hosmer :"
lifted West Point a few days later and II
ent to his home in Massachusetts, where At
/. died in a few months. Afterward the te
esident's daughter was married to the n
lgiishman, Algernon Sartoris. who died
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