The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-27
our NEW YORKLETTER
COLONEL FRED GRANT AND HIS FA-
MlllARiTv WITH ARMY LIFE.
His Story Of the Surrender of vicksburg
&c His Father-The Generals csimness
In One OF the Civil Wars Great Crises.
The Latest From Harry Marks

The Latest From Harry Marks
NEW YORK. May e7.-[Special Ire.
ports from Chickamauga park regarding
Colonel Fred Grant show that he is easily
falling into the ways of the soldier-ways,
by the bye which he learned all about
when he was only lad and had the privi'
lege of being his fathers camp companion
before Vicksburg and elsewhere
Fred Grant was a lad of l3 when Vtcks-
burg fell He shared his fathers tent all
through the siege. and his description of
the surrender given by himself to the
writer some time ago seems appropriate
for reproduction here
1.-The meeting Of the Confederate Gen.
eral Pemberton and my father on July B.
1863, has often been described much better
than I could tell of it,, said the colonel
modestly An that day was i'll with
toothache and at night the pain was so
great that l could not sleep. Our tent
was furnished very plainly, containing
only two cots. two stools and a board table
that had been knocked together by some
| of the soldiers
my father was naturally much inter
ested i'm whatever should transpire through
the night. and contrary to his general GUS
tom after busy day, he did not lie down
and sleep, but sat at the board table writ
ing letters by the pickering light of a can
die From where lay could see his face,
and, boy as I was, / remember to have
been much impressed by it's immobility as
he wrote. Hour after hour passed, and
| he wrote steadily and in silence scarcely
| lifting his head once before midnight
A Great General ut q Great Moment.
"In spite of my pain, had just begun
to doze when I heard some one approach
ing knew that the GRAND of the visitor
must be one of importance and became
| wide awake at once In moment an or
derby entered and handed my father q
note. He opened IL deliberately and with
an expression of great interest on his face,
but still without speaking, and read 1t
through two or three times before break
ing silence. Then he drew a long breath.
Well, Fred, he said at length, it's
all over with We enter Vicksburg in the
morning as soon as the terms of the formal
surrender can be arranged.
''That was all, and / suppose he must
have turned in at once, though 1 don't
know, for my own exhaustion and the re-
action caused by the announcement that
the siege of Vicksburg was actually fin
ished caused me TO fall asleep imme-
diately. OF the events of the next day
remember few details. i was only boy,
and many interesting and important
events naturally escaped me The meeting
between my father and General Pember-
ton was short and courteous, but there
was no great cordiality between them OF
course. Everybody seemed heartily glad
when the talk was over and the articles OF
capitulation had been signed AS soon as
possible after that we mounted our horses
1 L. s,,f0 4 81
recollection that our animals had to jump
the breastworks and that the jolting added
much to the pain suffered from my still
aching tooth "
Colonel Grants friends In New York
believe he will make good soldier--in
fact, that the military life is the one call
ing for which he is best fitted When he
was United States minister to the Aus
trian court, he made n most exhaustive
study of the armies and army systems OF
the old world and was then considered to
be one Of the best posted men living in all
round military information.
Harry Marks Again.
Old timers among newspaper men and
financiers In this town are interested in
the latest news from London about Harry
Marks, who nourshed here as u reporter
some twenty odd years ago, but has long
, been one of the Institutional characters,
. so to speak, of the worlds metropolis.
In brief this latest Marks news Is that
he succeeded not long ago, in pursuance
of plan to build railroad In Wales, in
securing sweeping power of attorney
from Queen Victoria's second son, Duke
Alfred of Saxe-Coburg. According to the
, story, no more comprehensive document OF
its class was ever issued than the one given
by the duke, for it placed all his property,
both real and personal, in the hands OF
Marks OF course the proceeding has
, aroused no end of indignation on the Other
side.
"It Is supposed by many" said New
Yorker who knew him well when he was
prominent here today, "that Marks is ar
' American, but he isn't. He was born IN
London and is the son OF London rabbi
: He is now publisher of the London Finan
! cial News, but he began his newspaper
career when only 10 as a reporter for {
: Texas paper. It was while In Texas tina
+, he got acquainted with Thomas Porter
house Ochiltree, who afterward helpet
J. him start his paper in London. Ochiltre
l. tells a story about Marks that shows hin
$ TO be no coward, whatever his faults II
general may be.
Marks and the Despersdo.
marks left Galveston before he was 2
- and went to work on the San Antonio Elk
= press There he had occasion to write u
, q notorious desperate named Vandergraff
n who had killed his man and of whom
10 | every one thereabouts stood I'm mortal ter
n ror Vandergraff sent word to the reporte
70 that he should kill him on sight Mark
Il didn't like that OF course. and started on
"a to find his man. They met in n gamblin
"a house. but Marks saw Vandergraff frs
a and proceeded promptly to knock hin
N down Then he kicked and pummclcd hin
no till he was nearly dead. When the ba
a. man was sufficiently punished, Marks IL
m him up, saying
I'd Now you can kill me II you want Il
be hut II you don't / shall kill you unle:
IN You get out of town inside OF an hour.
II "Vandergraff went promptly, and aftt
te that Marks was one of the most populf
10. men In all San Antonio. It was his col
or duct at that time that attracted Ochiltre