The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-10-19
OF this critical period Gen. Sherman re-

OF this critical period Gen. Sherman re-
marks in his Memoirs:
"One day, early in April, 1868, was
ND at Grants headquarters TAT Vicks-
burg(. and we talked over all these
things with absolute freedom. Charles
A. Dana, Assistant Secretary of War,
was there, and Wilson, Rawins, Frank
Blair. Mcpherson, and others. We all
knew, what was notorious, that Gen.
AlcC!eruaud was intriguing against Gen.
Grant, in hopes to regain command of
the whole expedition, and that others
wer raising clamor against Grant in the
newspapers of the North. Even Mr..
Lincoln and Gen. Halleck seemed TO bc
shaken; but at no instant did we, his
personal friends, slacken in our loyalty
to him"
Mr.. Dana was in the saddle ut the
front much of the time during the cam
paign Of northern Mississippi and Nicks
burg, the rescue of Chattanooga, aud
the marches and battle in Virginia IN
1864 and 1865. After the war his SER
vices were sought by the proprletora of
the Chicago Republican, "A new daily,
which failed through causes not within
the editors control. Returning to New
York, he organized, in 1867, the stock
company that now owns the sun, ana
became its editor. The first number of
the Sun issued by Mr.. Dana appeared
on January 81, 1868, and for nearly
thirty years he had been actively and
continuously engaged in the management
of that journal, and solely responsible
for its conduct. His criticism of civil
mal-administrations during Gen. Grants
terms as President led to notable at
tempt on the part of that administra-
ton, in July, 1878, to take him from
New York on a charge of libel, to be
tried without a jury in a Washington
police court. Application was made to
the United District court, in New York,
for warrant of removal; but in mem
orable decision, Judge Blatchford, after
ward Justice of the Supreme court of
the United States, refused the warrant,
holding the proposed form of trial to I've
unconstitutional.
HIS PERSONALITY IN THE SUN.
Perhaps to a greater extent that in
the case of any other conspicuous Jour
nalist Mr.. Dana's personality was lden-
titled in the public mind with the news
paper that he edited. He had recorded
no theories of journalism other than
CD0Se Oh common SeHSe anu hulhdh ma
ture. He was impatient of prolixity,
cant, and the conventional standard of
news Importance.
Mr.. Dana's first book was volume of
stories, translated from the German, en-
titled "The Black Art" New York and
Leipsic, 1S4S). In 1856 he planned and
edited, with George Ripley, the New
American Encyclopedia" The original
edition was completed in 1868. 1t has
since been revised and issued in a new
edition. With Gen. James II. Wilson, he
wrote a Life of Ulysses S. Grant"
(Springfeld, 1869. His Household Book
of Poetry" collection of the best minor
poems of the English language, was
first published in 1857, and has passed
through many editions. He also edited,
with Rossiter Johnson. Fifty Perfect
Poems" New York, 1863.
Mr.. Dana devoted the last years OF his
life to the active management of the
Sun. He took an annual vacation trip
to Europe land delivered several lee
lures, one of the most notable being at
Cornell University on Journalism" He
also contributed articles to magazines.