The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1895-09-20
GRANTS PLAN OF CAMPAIGN


Tho Great Work, OF Closing the ReOeflios
Unfolded BY Col. Fred d. Grant,
CINCINNATI, Sept 1.-THE twenty.
seventh annual session of the Society
Of the Army of the Tennessee began
at 10 a. m. yesterday with an unusually
large attendance. Over 100 officers OF
high rank were registered. The morn
ing session was devoted to reports and
routine business. In the afternoon the
distinguished visitors and their ladies
attended q reception at Fort Thomas.
in Kentucky, rendered by Commandant
Cochran and other army officers. The
battalion drill was followed by lunch.
con, at which many women from Gin
cinnati, Newport and Covington as
sisted. Gen. d. D. Henderson reported
$94, 600 secured for the Sherman monu-
ment at Washington, and $50, GOO prom.
ised by the G. A. R
A brilliant array of decorations in
the bright Auditorium theater of Odd
Fellows templehouse, filed with en-
thusiastic members of the Army of the
Tennessee and their friends, describes
the beginning of the night meeting of
the twenty-seventh reunion. Gov. Nc
Kinley delivered an eloquent welcome
for the state of Ohio.
Ex-Congressman John A. Caldwell,
mayor of Cincinnati, spoke the well
come for the Queen City. The presi-
dent Gen. Greenville NJ. Dodge, re-
sponded for the society, after which
Col. Frederick d. Grant made the ora
ton of the evening. Col. Fred Grants
annual address was unusually interest
| ing. 1t outlined Gen. Grants plan OF
campaign for closing the war, and
described the order in which Gen.
Grant would have narrated the story
| in the second volume of his memoirs
had his life been spared. Upon being
appointed acknowledgement and as.
suming command. Gen. Grant had an
! interview with President Lincoln, who
wanted some one to take the respc nsi-
| bility of action and call upon him for
supplies. the president pledging the
full powers of the government in ven-
| dering all assistance possible.
Gen. Grant then planned movements
for all of the armies to move at once.
He regarded the army of the James as
the left wing, the army of the Poto-
mac as the center, and the troops ope-
rating under Sherman, of which TIE
army of the Tennessee was a most i'm
portant part, as the right wing, all
other troops being cooperative col.
umns. BY continuously hammering
against the confederate armies he pro-
posed to destroy both them and their
sources of supply.
Col. Grant compared the movement
of the army of the Potomac to that OF
| Napoleon in the Russian campaign,
while the plan in reference to the
whole army resembled that adopted by
the allies in their campaign against
France in 1884. He outlined how the
confederates had concentrated their
troops east of the Mississippi into the
armies of Lee and Johnston, how Gen.
Grant placed himself with the army
of the Potomac where the greatest
opposition was expected, sent Sherman
again.. tombstone and Sheridan
through the Shenandoah valley. On
May the army of the Potomac moved,
and on May all were moving. BY
May Ii the southern troops were forced
to act entirely on the defensive, and
the union lines had been considera bly,
advap ced. 1t was at the end of the
first week of this campaign that Gen.
Grant wrote: 81 propose to fight it out
on this line if it takes all summer"
The second phase of the plan was to
keep the enemy within the besieged
cities--Richmond, Petersburg and At.
lanta--and actively engage the outside
troops to drive all the smaller COM
mands to the south, to devastate the
country from which supplies were
drawn and to destroy those who gath
cred these supplies.