The Opelousas courier., 1904-10-15
General Longstreet's Eulogy of Gen
eral Grant.

It was the of opinion yes
terday amor the Confederate veterans
who were in General Lees army o.
northern Virginia, and who had read
General Longstreet's Eulogy OF Gene
raj Grant, that General LOngstreeC I'D
presenting the opinion OF "the ragged
remnant Of the once proud army" OF
the Confederacy. was a little ektrava-
pant. We say it with all becomSug res
meet, but really General LOngstreet be-
trayed the g~arrulity of age and the ma
turai vanity of an eminent man IN ask
ing the Associated Press to send his
signed message throughout the
try. General Longstreet truly repre-
sented the sentiment OF the ex-Conted-
crates in their admiration for the
ssgrandeur and majesty of Grants char
acter.p and for the generosity and mag
nanimity ito our brave and broken
people, and they do not doubt that he
had a patriotic heart, but as to the
great mind" or that he was entitled to
rank with General Lee as a general,
they thoroughly doubt it.
General Grant was more fortunate IN
one respect than any other Union gene
raj that had proceeded him in the COM
placed In command at a time when the
patience of the people of the Northern
States had been worn out, and they had
become Disguised at the frequent
changes Of generals of the Federal ar
mics and the Secretary of War for in
terfering with the generals in the field,
and public sentiment demanded that
General Grant, who had been q lucky
man. who had been saved from disas-
ter by the Opportnne arrival of Buell's
army RL StifuiI, and Mt once 6i6vatt6at tt6
the command OF the Federal armies,
should have all the men and arms me-
cessary, and that he should be in abso-
Int control of all the campaigns of the
Federal armies.
In this way the very quality foI
which General Grant was most distin.
Ruished, that of losing a thousand meH
and sending two thousand men to take
their places, was given full sway, and
the government at Washington wal
compelled to accept that plan of battle
Hevsry European nation with France
had declared wal against the Southern
Confederacy. no one of them wOuiC
have sent more troops to reinforce Gen
eraI Grant. There never was q gene
raj with more ample resources from
which to draw, of men, arms and mon
ey than General Grant had from TIL
beginning to the close of his campaign
against Richmond, from his first battle
on the RappahannOck to Appomat0,
Court House, and yet with all thes'
magnificent resources. he failed T.
turn Lees flank and approach bis OBJ
iective point. Richmond, the capitol 0
the C0nfederaey when Lee was com
manding an army much inferior IL
numbersand that could not be mate
rally reinforced. IL General Grant il
one day lost q 1000 or 10000 men h
could and did confront Lee the mex
day with double his loss in fresh meI
and Lee held the field at the close o
was compelled to move back around th
6 Of his own army by tn
right flank, and found General Lee il
position in bis front the next day, n
nearer Richmond along the whole lin
nf battle across the James river, an
finally Petersburg.
General Lee, by superior gensralship
held back an army reinforced every ia
aG d loss to that army OF $4,000 meT
with q much smaller army, not mate
rally reinforced, from the first battl
nc the Wilderness until, with the rem
nant of his ragged band, lie took posi-
tion at Petersburg, stillin Grant'sfron1
and compelled Grant to lay seige an
attack the city by regular approach
bringing to the aid OF his superior mum
bers the skill of bis engineers. That
the story ia a nutshell, as the soldier
of General Lees army know it. Th
Confederate veterans accord Geners
ty towards the Southern States, BIZ
when they attempt to rank him as
general with tho grand old militar
nhtnFtnfm nf the Ennthern GOnrR0eracl