The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-05-17
TRUTH ABOUT GRANT.
a Sentimental Story That 10 Not gus.5
tained by Facts. .s

"a Sentimental Story That 10 Not sus.5
y tained by Facts.
III Tho following timely article is a oom-
munioation rooontly published in che
Atlanta Constitution: 4 i3
Niitor Constitution: Not long ago
you 'reproduoed by permission from
the New Y ork Worlds Sunday Mega.
zlno an article by Mrs. Jefferson
Davis on Tho Humanity Of Grant"
Mira: Davis has certainly depended
upon imagination and hearsay Ia this
oulology lllfl on Grant. Speaking Of tho
sword story of Appomattox, sho say:
'donoral Grant did not koepS It as q
trophy, but respectfully returned it to
tho hand which had made its fame as
dsathless as that Of Exoslibur,' In:
Grants Memoirs, volume 2, page 494,
ho says:i $ The much talked Of aur.
rendering OF Lee,s sword and my hand, !,
ing it back, this and much more that
has boon said, about it is tho purost
romance. 1t was pure romance about
Grant roceivlng the sword, and 1t fol-
lows that it was not ''respe fully 70.
turned. ,t. IS
In his memoirs; Con. Grant saws That
Gen. Lee told him that in the Oonfod-
crate army the oayalrymen and artil-
lerists owned their own horses. Gon..
Grant was Of opinion that the war was
about ended; that most Of the Uonfed.
crates wore email farmers and would
not be ablo to mako q crop without
"tho aid Of the horses they were thon
riding" He ssid to Con. Lee about
the horses: Tho United States did not
want them, and I would, therefore, in.
struot tho officors / left behind to 70.
ceivo the paroles Of his troops to let
oyory. man of tho Confederate army
Who claimed to own a horse or mule
to take tho animal to his home.n From
this it will be soon that Gen. Grant. ao.
oording to his own statement. was in.
auenoed by two facts in allowing tho
Confederatea to retain their horses to
wit: Tue horses We're tho private prop.
erty Of the soldiers, and s'tho United,
States did not want them" This means
that the horses would have been taken,
if they had belonged to the Oonfoder.
ato Statos, or they would have boon
taken anyway if tho United Statoa had
wanted them. NJ I; 81 s..
This horse story has boon told SO
ofton that no doubt somo porsons be-
lieve that Gen. Grant sent Gen. Lee's
soldiers home, on horseback, but that is
not tho case= When The surrender
camo Con. Ice had only 1882 infantry
with arms in their hands.
Before the payrolos were made out
stragglors enough oame up to run tho
number up to about 25. 900. Of those
about 5000 were cavalry and artillery.
Then at least 10000 mon had to walk
homo, and we're not benefciarios of
Grants magnanimity. Tho mon who
did ride home were allowed to keep
their horses only until they got in good
condition. Thon treasury agents
swarmod through the country and car.
ried off every horse that had tho brand
U. 8. or q. 8. on it. But this did not
satisfy them, for they took away evory
horse that some trifing negro would
say had been in the army. nh.
Whom it comes to magnanimous
treatment of Oonfederates, Grant is not
to be classcd,, with Sherman. Gen.
Benjamin Z. Butler states that there
was an agreemont between Sherman aud
his loading officers to provide a ship at
Charleston for tho escape from the
country Of Jefferson Davis and such,
of his cabinet and others as chose to
10 with him. II, .s b 5s
Il is Q fact that Sherman proposeI
10 allow the mon Of Johnston'a army
who surrendered at Greensboro to take
their guns and 60 home as If 40 war
had taken place.sa He said he's would