The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-17
FRED GRANT SPOKE.
Addresses Survivors of Army of
the Tennessee.
Their 9th Annual Reunion AS
sembles in Cincinnati.
SHERMAN MONUMENT.
Gen. Henderson Reports $116,-
900 Secured for It.

twenty-seventh annual session of the
Society of the Army of the Tennessee
began here at 10 a. N. with an I'M
usually large attendance. Over 100
officers of high rank were registered.
The morning session was devoted to
reports and routine business. In the
afternoon the visitors and their ladies
attended a reception at Fort Thomas,
in Kentucky, rendered by Command
ant Cochran and other army officers.
The battalion drill was followed by
luncheon, at which many women from
Cincinnati, Newport and Covington
assisted. General D. D. Henderson
reported 1914 600 secured for the Sher-
man monument at Washington, and
$40, 900 promised 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 the friends, describes
the beginning of the night meeting of
the twenty-seventh reunion. Gov
ernor Mckinley delivered an eloquent
welcome foE the state of Ohio.
Ex-Congressman John A. Caldwell,
mayor of Cincinnati, spoke the well
come for the Queen City. The presi-
sponded for the society, after which
Colonel Frederick D. Grant made the
grafton of the evening. Colonel Fred
Grants annual add; 'esS was unusually
interesting. 1t outlined General
Grants plan of campaign FOR closing
the war, and described the order in
which General Grant would have mar
rated the story in the second volume
of his memoirs had his life been spared.
era1 and assuming command, General
Grant had an interview with President
Lincoln, who wanted someone to take
the II sponsibility of action and call
upon him for su plies, the president
pledging the full powers of the govern
ment in rendering all assistance posi-
BILE
General Grant then planned move
ments for all of the armies to move at
once He regarded the army of the
James as the left wing, the army of
the Potomac as the center, and the
troops operating under Sherman. of
which the army of the Tennessee was
a most important part, as the right
wing, all other troops being co-opera-
tive columns. BY continuously ham
mering against the confederate armies
he pr posed to destroy both them and
their sources of supply.
ment of the Army of the Potomac to
that of Napoleon in the Russian cam
paign, while the plan in reference to
the whole army resembled that adopt
ed by their allies in the campaign
| a. ainst France in 1914. He outlined
how the COnfederates had concentrated
/ their troops east of the Mississippi
into the armies of Lee and Johnston,
how General Grant placed himself
| with the Army of the Pc omac,
where the greatest opposition was
/ expected, sent Sherman against John
| stone, and Sheridan through the Shen-
andoah valley. On May 4 the Army
| of the Potomac moved, and on May
| all were moving. By May IL the
! Sout hern troops were forced to act en-
! tirely on the defensive, and the Union
| lines had been considerably advanced.
this cam align that General Grant
wrote: 4 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
ci.ies-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
j cred these supplies.
Governor Mckinley left for Chat
! tanooga as soon as he had done speak
ing. General Hiekenlooper, in intro
| ducing him, mentioned him as the
proba BILE next president. He had Just
come from dinner given him at the
| St. Nicholas, at which Mark Hanna
and others were present