The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-28
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both born, their respective families re
moving later to Point Pleasant. JESSE
out Grant and Hanna Simpson were mar
ried in 1921 The next year, on April q
a son was born. Hiram Ulysses was the
name first given TO this future hero. HiS
| father had taken up tanning as his mean:
| Of support, and that he found it a very
| lucrative occupa ton is proved from tbs
| fact that he was able to educate MS chill
dren handsomely and divide quite an am
pie fortune among them in his later days
Always called by his second giveT
name, by some error he was named by his
congressman to the secretary of war &c
! Ulysses Simpson, so his commission for
| West Point was made out, and so his
name remained. Cadet Grant received
brevet second lieutenant commission in
! 1913; served with peculiar distinction in
Mexico, being in every battle save that
| of Buena Vista. On one occasion Gen
eral Worth put company with its cap
! tain under the command OF the young
lieutenant, who, taking possession Of an
| old church, dragged a field gun up into
| the belfry, himself loading and firing it,
! dislodged a force of Mexicans from a par
| apet stubbornly held by them as one OF
| the defenses of the City Of Mexico. For
| this work he was specially commended by
General Worth anx breveted twice within
| five days.
Returning from Mexico, he received a
! furleugh, married Miss Julia T. Dent in
| 17S4S, continuing in the army until 1854,
when he resigned his commission and
| took up his residence on a farm near St
| Louis, in which ely his wifes family lived.
He seemed to have met with little sue
cess in civil pursuits, and in 1860 removed
o Galena, where he became associated
with his brothers in the leather trade.
ION the 18th of April, six days after the
! fall of Fort Sumter. he had gathered a
company, began to drill them and offered
himself to the governor of Illinois So
modest and unobtrusive was eneral Grant
that his old service seems for a time to
| have been lost sight Of. The story of his
military career has been rehearsed over
and over. All are familiar with his sue
| cess in the west, and there first looms up
| the generosity of his character. When
seeking to establish the United States in
possession of Kentucky, he proclaimed:
L have nothing to do with opinions, and
shall deal only with armed rebellion and
its aiders and abettors
'At Vicksburg his order was: The gar
rison will march out tomorrow Instruct
your commands to be quiet and orderly
as the prisoners pass by. and make no
offensive remarks
AT Appomattox he quietly hushed all
noisy demonstrations of victorious Joy
with the words: The war is over; the
rebels are our counrymen again, and the
bes sign Of rejoicing after the victory will
be to refrain from all demonstrations in
the field
"And his generosity to his defeated
countrymen has made its indelible mark
on the character of the American soldier.
as shown by their conduct in the war
with Spain. when their treatment of the
enemy's wunded and prisoners gained
worldwide admiration. 1t was the gen
erous magnanimity of Grant after com
pelling he surrender of the Confederate
armies that did more to bring about the
reunion 70 the states than ten millions of
troops could ever have accomplished.
THE modesty of Grants character was
most singuar. and, in this day of sham
and pretense, most wonderful. Evidently
his early life and its hardships and de-
privations had taught him the true ball
ance Of earthly things. After reaching
the dizzy heights of fame, and in his
journey around the earth, standing as
their equal among the crowned heads of
the world. honored and applauded. he re-
manned as unobstrusively retiring as
when he entered upon his great career
and it Is the utter absence of all shadow
of egotism that makes his Memoirs so
unique a production.
General Grants modesty sometimes led
him 70 speak rather disparagingly of him
self While this may have been done in a
spirit of jest rather than of seriousness.
many wrong impressions were thus ere
ated which remain even 10 this day Es-
peciallv IS this true as TO his proficiency
as a student. He has been referred to as
standing very low in his classes. and
story has often been repeated that, while
cadet. General Grant expressed great
delight at the introduction of a bill in con-
gress To abolish the military academy.
giving as his reason that the passage of
the bin would enable him to get ont of
the academy honorably. whereas. without
II. he would certainly be dismissed. All
these impressions are utterly without
foundation. In General Grants class 81
cadets We're appointed. Nine were turned
back from other classes. making 100. The
first year he stood sixteenth in mathe-
MATES: the second year he had risen to
tenth in that scientific branch: the third
year he stood fifteenth i'm philosophy,
-wenty-secnd in chemistry and nineteenth
in drawing, and his last year. when q
first class man. he stood sixteenth in
military and civil engineering and sew
eHteen;h in mirera'osy and geology. This
was We up % the average standard of
the distinguished generals who became
prominent both in che Federal and Con-
federate armies. This shows how thor
oughly untrue are statements 70 the e.
feet that ne vas in danger Of being dis
missed from ne academy for deficiency in
his studies
1T i not Wen for the young men Of
the country 10 he taught that men rise 70
the sreaJ heights attained by General
Grant without s--s4y and af=t-a-s4v, T.