The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-09-17
HIS FATHERS PLANS
Iu the Closing Days of the Re-
belllon, Discussed at the'
lRMY OF TENNESSEE'S REUNION
At ClnoIn natl by Col, Fred u. Grant
Tho Rus1Ian Campaign OF Napoleon
Somewhat Enthusiastically de.
sire for Central Head of tho SIIlI,
tary Foreos-ThO Speaker Received
an Ovation,


seventh annual session OF the society Of
the army OF tho Tennessee began here
at 10 a. m, with an unusually largo at
tendance. Over 100 officers OF high
rank wero regISlered. The morning
session was devoted to reports and rOu'
tine business. In the afternoon the
distinguished visitors and their ladies
attended reception at Fort Thomas, in
Kentucky, rendered by Commander
Cochran aud other army officers. Tho
battalion drill was followed by lunch
con, at which many ladies from ClnCln-
natl, Newport and CovingtOn assisted.
Gen. D. B. Henderson reported S04,.
900 secured Tor the Sherman monument
at Washington, aud $1,000 promised by
the Grand Army OF the Republic.
The following deaths Wsro reported
during tho past year: Lieut.. Il. p,
Toby, Major General B. Hogan, Major
Q. II. Dyer, Gon. W. Q. Gresham, Chi.
cago; Major j. W. Paddock, Omaha;
Capt, L. II. Webster, Denver; Capt, i,
II. Griffin, St. Louis; Gen. MaIon Bray.
man, Kansas City; Major Frank i.
Pea,s, Rockford, Ill. Col. L. q. Dawes,
CincInnAti; Lieut.. Oliver AnGon, Coun'
Gil BlHHs, and Gen. CHARLES Sutherland,
Washington.
Governor Mckinley delivered an elo.
quent welcome for the state Of Ohio.
EI.Congros.man John A. Caldwell,
mayor OF Cincinnati, spoke the welcome
for the Queen City. The president
Gen. Granville N. Dodge, responded
for tho society.
Tho annual address was delivered By
Col. Fred Grant, oil New York city. 1t
was unusually interesting. 1t outlined
General Grants plan OF campaign for
closing tho war, and described the
order in which General Grant would
have narrated tho story in the second
volume OF his memoirs, had his liiO
been spared. Until being appointed
lieutenant general and assuming com.
mand, General Grant had an interview
with President Lincoln, who wanted
someone to tRko the responsibility OF
action, and call upon him for supplies,
the president pledginG the full powers
OF tho government In rendering all
assistance possible.
General Grant then planned move.
ments or all the armies to move at once,
Ele regarded the army OF tho James, as
tho left wing, the army Of tho Potomac
rs the centre and tho troops operating
under Shorman,ot which the army Of
the Tennessee was most important
part, was the right wing, all other
troops being cooperative columns. By
continuous hammeElng against the Con-
iedorate armies, hO proposed to dos.
troy both them and their sources Of
supply.
General Grant compared tho move.
ment Of the army OF tho Potomac to
that OF Napoleon in the Russian cam.
paign, whilo the plan in reference to
the whole army rOsembled that adopted
BY the allies in their campaign against
France in lSlS.l4. lie outlined how
the confederates had concentrated their
troops east Of tho Mississippi into the
armies OF Lee and Johnston, how GEN
oral Grant placed himself with tho
army oil the Potomac where tho great
est opposition was expected, sent shor-
man against Johnston aud Sheridan
through tho Shenandoah Valley. On
May tho army OF tho Potomac moved,
aud on May all were moving By
Nav IL tho southern troops were forced
to act entirely on tho defensive aud the
union lines werO considerably advanced.
II was at the end OF tho frat week Of
the campaign that General Grant wrote;
~ propose TO fight II out on this limo
II il takes all summer"
The second phase OF the plan was to
keep the enemy within tho besiegod
cities, Richmond, Petersburg and At.
lanta, and actively engage tho outside
troops, to drive all tho smaller com.
mNnds TO tho south, TO devastato tho
country from which supplies were
drawn, and to destroy those who gath.
cred these supplies.
Music was interspersed through tho
programme. 1t wna furnished by an
orchestra, tho Loyal Legion Quartotto
aud Miss Mary Logan Pearson, "the
daughter Of tho army OF tho T0nneHseC." F."
Her singing Of tho "sLar spanGlod
Banner" was tho musical feature Of tho
evening.
Governor Mckinley lclt Tor Chnua'
noogn whom heGnished speaking. Cen.
cral lhckonloper Introducing lum nGn'
toned him Aa tho probable next prOsi-
dent. llo had just como from q dinner
given him nt tho st. Nicholas at which
Mark Hanna and others wore present.
All the sponkors at tho meeting wOrO an
plauded. Governor Mckinley came In
for n worry largo share.
Colonel Grant mOt with an ovation
whom introduced, tho applause continu.
Ing minute or moro. llO was gonor.
ousy apnlaudod nt tho close OF his al.
dEeEs. oHIy tho ahlceFa and speakers
for the ovoning occupied tho stage sllar.
ing II with uniformed military COIN.
paniOs. General Howard occupied tho
box. all others formed part oil tho au.
diBnCO.
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