Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-09-17
Respectfully,
"T. ESTRAD PALMA" !"
COL. FRED GRANT
Tells the Survivors of the Army of
the Tennessee of His Fathers Plans
for Crushing the Confederacy--An
Ovation for Him.

Cincinnati, O., September ia bril-
liant array of decorations in the bright
Auditorium Theatre of Odd Fellows
temple, filled with enthusiastic men,
bers of the Army of the Tennessee, de-
scribes the beginning of the night
meeting Of the twenty-seventh re-
union.
Governor Mckinley delivered an elo-
quent welcome for the State of Ohio.
Ex-Congressman John A. Caldwell,
Mayor of Cincinnati, spoke the welcome
for the Queen City. The president,
General Granville NJ. Dodge, responded
for the society, after which Colonel
Frederick D. Grant made the Grafton Of
the evening.
Colonel Fred Grants annual address
was unusually interesting. 1t out
lined General Grants plan Of cam
paign for closing the war, and de-
scribed the order in which General
Grant wOulh have narrated the story
in the second volume of his memoirs,
had his life been spared. Before being
appointed Lieutenant General and as
suming command, General Grant had
an interview with President Lincoln,
who wanted some one to take the re-
sponsibility of action and call upon him
for supplies, the President pledging the
full powers of the government in rem
dering all assistance possible.
General Grant then planned move
ments for all the armies to move at
once. He regarded the army of the
James. as the left wing, the army of
the Potomac as the centre and the
troops operating under Sherman, of
which the army of the Tennessee was
most important part, was the right
wing, all other troops being cO-opera-
tive columns BY continuously ham
mering against the Confederate armies,
he proposed to destroy both them and
their sources Of supply.
Colonel Grant compared the move
ment of the army Of the Potomac 10
that of Napoleon in the Russian cam
paign,. while the plan in reference to
the whole army resembled that adopted
by the Allies in their campaign against
Frace in 1813-14 He outlined how the
AOlltutIdLrS udu CDuNcllll dLtu Liltil
troops east of the Mississippi into the
armies of Lee and Johnson, how Cen
eral Grant placed himself with the army
Of the Potomac where the greatest oppO-
sition was expected, sent Sherman
against Johnson and Sheridan through
the Shenandoah Valley. On May 4, 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 considerably advanced.
II was at the end Of the first week Of
this campaign that General Grant
wrote:
q propose 10 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 cit
les. Richmond, Petersburg and Atlanta,
and actively engage the outside troops,
10 drive all the smaller commands 10
the south, to devastate the country
from which supplies were drawn, and
TO destroy those who gathered these
supplies.
Music was interspersed through the
programme II was furnished by an
orchestra, the Loyal Legion Quartette
and by Miss Mary Logan Pearson, "the
daughter OF the Army OF the Tennes-
see"