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HONOR
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forging ahead and captured the fort
with 1900 men. this being the first i'm
| portant victory for the Federal forces
! in the civil war. He Immediately NOV
cd upon Fort Donnelson, fourteen miles
! away, and when, in response TO his de-
mand for surrender, came back note
| asking for twenty-four hours time in
which to consider his demand, he re-
| piled. saying: II propose to move inn
| mediately upon your works"
| At Shiloh. that bloodiest OF all the
battlefields in the West. Grant turned
/ apparent defeat into victory. His
J forces driven back and badly democrat
! lied in his absence, he arrived too late
| in the day to do much toward stem
ming the tide. But through the night
| he reformed his lines and buoyed up by
! the fact that a man of victory was in
command again, his men began the
next Gays fighting with renewed vigor
and fought with such relentless energy
that not only was the lost ground re-
taken. but the Confederates were driv-
Ell from the field and compelled to fall
back to Vicksburg. Grant made no
theatrical dash after the retreating foe.
hut steadily and constantly pressed
onward. At Vicksburg IL was the same
steady pressing forward that finally
caused the surrender of that strongly
fortified city. Here the message, Il
propose to move Immediately upon
your works." gave way to the message,
Il can accept no terms but uncondi-
tional surrender" Later on when
transferred to command OF all the Fed
eral forces. with the immediate COM
mand OF the Army OF the Potomac.
there continued that same spirit OF
logged persistency. 1t was from the
Wilderness that he sent to Washington
the famous message. II propose TO fight
IL nut on this line IL IL takes all sum-
mer." When Lee sent Early raiding up
10 Shennn1n 70
Washington. hoping in this way to
draw of Grant as he had often drawn
OF former commanders of the Federal
army, Grant paid no particular heed,
leaving Sheridan TO deal with Early.
which he did, sending his army back
defeated and demoralized.
When Rosecrans was hemmef in by
Bragg NJ Chattanooga in 1868 and
Grant was called from West Tennessee
to go and take command and save East
Tennessee. IL did not take him long to
break Bragg's lines. Grant found an
army almost hopelessly hemmed in.
with short rations and the morale of
the men at a low ebb. In a few days
he changed all this and the battle OF
Lookout Mountain and Missionary
Ridge, IL there had been no other bril-
liant achievement In Grants military
life. would have stamped him as a
great soldier.
But Grant has a record that stands
out pre-eminent among the military
heroes OF the worlds history. He new
er conducted a retreat. He ordered
back troops temporarily in order to
confound his enemy on a proposed ad-
vance but never did he conduct a re-
treat. 1t was always advance and
night with Grant.
Every other great military chief
sought personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. Julius
Caesar, wonderful man that he was,
became carried away with his own i'm
portance and sought to set himself up
as King or Emperor of the Roman peo-
pie. Napoleon fought his bloody way
to the head of Europe, making kings
his puppets. but leaving behind him
trail of blood which a century has not
effaced. Grant, when the, final surrenr
der came, declared that the enemy
should retain their horses. as the men
would need them for their spring plow-
ing His whole thought was for peace
ana for peaceful pursuits, for a reunit-
ed country. Almost his first declara-
ton when hostilities had ceased was
Let us have peace" There was no
longing for conquest. no seeking after
Individual glory. 1t has been said that
had Grant desired he would have been
supported not only by the army but by
"A majority of Congress in declaring
nimelf dictator during the quarrels be-
tween President Johnson and Congress
in '67-'6S but such a matter was far
OF the army solely for support of the
civil administration and nothing could
move him from that course. Never in
the history or nations has there been
IL military hero whose self-effacement
was so complete as that of Grants.
And when the end approached 1t was
not OF military achievements and glo-
ries that his mind dwelled but on the
perfect blessings OF peace. AS he stead |
lily descended into the Valley of the
Shadow OF Death. propped in his chair
1t Mount MacGregor, he wrote TO his .
that last message:
Il feel that We are on the eve Of
new era. when there is to be great
harmony between the Federal and the ,
1 cannot stay to be n liy-
ing witness to the correctness or this .
but feel IL within me that IL
Is to be so. The universally kind feel
Ing expressed for me at a time when 1t
was supposed that each day would
prove my last. seemed TO me the begin
ming Of the answer TO Let us have
Peacei"
Mrs. Sacwitz sang a solo most effect
lively. accompanied by Mrs. w. l.
on the piano.
Captain l.. :. Grant White. L. S. N,
old OF the earlier life OF Grant as It
vas associated with his own life. both
having been raised in the same town.
'aptain White said that the reason he
Xas named after the General was by
-eason Of VOWS exchanged by Grant
Ind Captain Whites father while they
Nere together In the Mexican war.
on their future, their pros
,ective marriages and life in general
ach promised that his first born should
- named after the other. He said in
art:
General Ulysses s. Grant was born
{ Point Pleasant. n little hamlet In
'lermont county. Ohio. lying on the
,hio river. some IS miles up from Gin
iunatL When about two years old his
ather. jesse Z. Grant. removed to the
iliaGe OF Georgetown in the adjoining
uuntv Of Brown. and IL was in this VII
igy that Grants childhood and boy Il
God days Were spent and from which
. went 20 the Military Academy at
Vest Point.
In this connection 1 wish TO say a
wv words relative TO this same village
nd its record in the war of the rebel