Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-13

| the President did not wish to be dis
turbed, said to the servant: Say that
| the President is not in"
| Gen. Grant overheard the remark,
| turned around suddenly in his chair
and cried out to the servant:
Tell him no such thing. | don't lie
myself, and I don't want anyone to lie
| for me-"
So careful was Grant to tell only the
exact truth, even to the most tritiing
details, that it was said of him once
that he was ''tediously truthful
After the surrender at AppomattoX
the Federal troops began to fire salutes.
Grant sent orders at once to have them
stopped, using the following words:
The war is over the rebels are our
countrymen again, and the best sign
of rejoicing after the victory will be to
abstain from all demonstrations on the
field
Grant had absolutely no ear for
music. He said himself that the only
two tunes he knew were Yankee Doc
die" and 'Old Hundred In the spring
of 1880 General and Mrs. Grant were in
Galena, and on April 27, Grants fifty
eighth birthday, band serenaded him
and opened with "The Girl | Left Be-
hind Me-" One Of the party, after the
serenade apologized for the quality Of
the band and Grant said to him:
"Oh, didn't notice anything wrong.
You might as well have serenaded me
with tin horns, SO far as | am con,
cerned, for l know less about music
than anything. l know, of course, that
your band played Yankee Doodle for
its opening piece, but whether it played
it artistically or not | am unable to
| Judge"
His uncuItiyated ear had mistaken
'"The Girl l Left Behind Me" for one
of the only two airs he thought he
knew
Frederick Dent Grant, in a letter to
IlIc w Ollu VI cCpl' AOy 1000, w IONN '-AttC
| about a week before bis fathers death
the General wrote on bit of paper to
him Che was unable to talk at the time):
ut is possible that my funeral may
become one of public demonstration in
which event have no particular choice
of burial place. but there is one thing
which l wish you and the family to in
sist upon, and that is, that wherever
my tomb may be- place shall be re-
served for your mother at my side"
New York World
Union Soldiers from the South.
There were many Southern boys in
the Union army" said the Major, who
had difficult parts to play. Some of
them, in the North attending school,
were carried into the three month regi-
ments on the wave of patriotism that
swept over the North when Fort Sum-
| ter was fired on. At the time they be-
| lieved their people at home would stand
with them, and they enlisted without
consultation with parents or other rel
atives. When the real situation was I'M
derstood they were greatly distressed.
| While most Of the men in our company
were carried over the period of home
| sickness by encouraging letters from
home, the Southern boys were bur-
dened by the knowledge that their fam
lilies had disowned them.
''To the everlasting credit of these
men, it should be said that they stood
every test and trial. Most of them in
our regiment re-enlisted for three years
and were among our very best soldiers.
We carried one in victory to his old
home in Tennessee. We drove the en-
envy from the home of another in East
ern Kentucky and saw him welcomed
by his mother. We lost a dashing
LOuisianian before we were we'll on
our way to Shiloh, and his death de-
pressed the company more than that
of any other occurring in the first year
of the war. We swept with another
into his native village in North Carolina
in the last year Of the war to meet
with peculiar experience.
eve were on our northward march to
Washington when we came to the vii
lage Of four or five hundred people. In
most of the towns we had found many
men but among all the people who
f1ocked to our line of march through
this town there were only four men,
and these old and feeble. l asked an
old darky, Where are all the men of
this town, uncle? He replied, very
crayely. You all done killed them all
at one pop
This was literally true. The men
and larger boys of the village had con-
stitutcd a full company in a Confeder-
ate regiment. In the vicinity of Rich
mond they were caught in cross fire
of infantry and artillery and literally
annihilated, nearly hundred men fall