The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-17
General Hickenlooper then introduced
Governor Mckinley, who delivered short

speech.
Mayor Caldwell was the next speaker.
Genere<. Dodge, president of the society,
then z sponded to Governor Mckinley
and A-ayor Caldwel's speeches.
Colonel Fred Grant was then introduced
and was received with great enthusiasm.
Colonel Grant in opening his address said:
II thank you for your kind welcome
this evening, which l appreciate greatly
as coming to me because of the name l
bear. When [ heard yesterday that you
wanted me to be the orator of the twenty.
seventh annual reunion of the Army of the
Tennessee l felt, knowing that | was not
speaker, that | could not accept the
honor you wished to confer upon me, but
remembering that you were old friends and
comrades of my dear father, that you had
been through sufferings and triumphs with
him, sharing with him the same anxieties,
ambitions and glories, 1 feel emboldened
to come before you tonight as his men
and talk to you little about the story of
the last years of the war as l know it ap-
peared to General Grant, your first COM
mander.
"Since / have had the honor of acting as
one of the Commissioners of Police in New
complainingly that / wished to infuse too
much military spirit into the police force
there, and that l should remember that it
is guard of peace that is really needed
and not one of war. 1t is true that 1 do
not object to little martial spirit among
policemen, knowing that gentleness, kind
ness and peacefulness are always to be
found in the hearts of the bravest soldiers.
Cali the world knows how you, the noble
| soldiers of the Army of the Tennes-
see, after laboriously working your way
| into Vicksburg and enduring the
fatigues and trials of that long
campaign and siege, entered as victors at
last-not to triumph cruelty over your de-
fea ted enemies, but to divide your rations
with them as with brave fellow-soldiers
and to extend to them all consideration
and mercy.
81 have all the more courage in speaking
| to you, because l experienced much kind
ness at your hands when a lad of Ii years.
l was with you during the siege of Vicks-
burg, probably very much in the way,
although you, who were so busy in the
great conflict, still found time to show me
much friendly consideration.
81 propose tonight to give you sketch
of General Grants own plan of campaign,
and to describe the order in which he
would have narrated the story in the sec
ond volume of his Memoirs had he been
able to use his voice in debating the last
month of his Efe, or had his life been
spared few weeks longer. I know well
his intentions in this regard, as l was with
him constantly during his last illness
when he wrote his book.
'In narrating the story of the campaign
of the years 1864-65, Grant exhibited the
movements of the army as they appeared
from the commanders headquarters. He
said that his plan with reference to
| the Army of the Potomac was sim
liar to that of Napoleon in the Russian
campaign, while the plan in reference to
the whole army much resembles the plan
! adopted by the allies in their campaign
against France in 1854.
st is undoubtedly pleasure to you to
know that the whole campaign was
directed by an old member of the Army
of the Tennessee while he gave his imme-
diate and direct attention to the left wing
of the army around Petersburg and Rich
mond.
"The successful and brilliant movements
up the Shenandoah Valley were conducted
by an officer whose early experiences had
been with the Army of the Tennessee
General Phillip III. Sheridan-and the
| right wing, of which the Army of the Ten
nessee was so important a part, was
directed and controlled by another COM
rade of the Army of the Tennessee-Gen-
eral William I. Sherman. Thus one sees
that the Army of the Tennessee before the
end of the war had to furnish the COM
manders of all of the active columns.
'tl may here mention very gratifying
circumstance. When 1 had the pleasure
of meeting the great German general,
Count Won Moltke, at Berlin, in 1873, he
said to me: Il have learned and protited
much from studying the campaigns OF the
Union armies during the Civil War and I
made use of this knowledge during our
campaigns in France, especially in attack
ing field artillery This was surely high
praise for our armies, and it has caused
me to study the great campaigns of the
world, from which study 1 have become
convinced that there have been five great
epochs in modern warfare.
"In conclusion 1 beg to say to you, my
comrades, that my father, General Grant,
was greatly distressed In the year 1854,
when he found that i'll health would pre-
vent his meeting you at your reunion in
Minnesota. You then invited him to
make the oration the next year, when you
were to come together at Chicago. Deep,
indeed, was his sorrow when you spoke to
his physicians of your invitation and
learned from them that he would prob
ably never attend another reunion of the
Army of the Tennessee, but up to the last
moment of his life he cherished the deep
est and most heartfelt affection for you,
his dear and oldest friends. With his
name this love for the Army of the Ten
nessee is my inheritance"
| CLEYEL4ND NOT II CANDIDATE.
| At Least That Is the Opinion of Brother
in-Latc Bacon.