Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-04-09

men (marching twenty abreastl
through a gate, and he shouted This
company is dismissed for two minutes,
when it win fall in again on the othnr
side of the gate
In June, 1868, Geenral Meade,
Pennsylvania, took Hookers pace.
Lincoln was not satisfied after Gettys-
burg, because Meade spoke of driving
the invaders from our SOIL" aud i'll
Lincoln's view the victory should have
been followed up aggressively.
Coincidentally with Gettysburg,
Grant, in the West took Nicksburg,
and from that time Lincoln had the
General he wanted. Lincoln wrote him
nine days after the great surrender:
MY Dear General do not remem-
Der that you and / ever met personal
ly. / write this now as a grateful &C
acknowledgement for the almost inestima-
bic service you have done the countrJ.
l wish to say a word further. When
you first reached the vicinity of Nfcks
burg, / thought you would do what
you finally did-march the troops
across the neck, run the batteries VITA
the transports, and thus go below and
l never had any faith, except general
hope that you knew better than l that
the Yazoo Pass expedition and the Ike
could succeed. When you got below
and took Fort Gibson, Grand Gulf and
the vicinity, I thought you should go
down the river and join General baEhs,
and when you turned northward, east
of the Big Black, l feared it was mis-
take. ! now wish to make the personal
acknowledgment that you were right
and l was wrong
General Grant is a cOpious worker
and fighter, but very meagre writer
or telegrapher," said Lincoln, when
Burnside asked him for more details
of Grants movements. Il ike To It
man: he fights" Lincoln would say to
the delegations that came every lltAe
while in the earlier part Of thu war
to insist that Grant be denoted or ais
missed After Grant took hold the for
lowing spring as Lieutenant General
Lincoln had no orders to give him. lie
realized that the victor Of VicksbuIg
knew what he was about and that he
had earned the right to be let alone.
'The particulars of your plan," Lin
coin wrote Grant shortly after the
latter's accession to chief command,
81 neither know nor seek to know.
You are vigilant and self-rel1ant; ana,
pleased with this, l wish not to OBJ
trude any CONSTANTS or restraints
upon YOU" Such message as Hold
on with a bulldog grip, and chew ana
choke as much as possible" is not TO
be construed as a command.
Admiral Porter says that when Lin
coin heard Of Grants terms given 10
Lee he used half dozen expressions,
such as Exactly the thing" All
right" and Good" to indicate ais
satisfaction.
At the dedication of the Lincoln
monument in Springfield Grant said u
the great commander: with all his
disappointments from failures on the
mart of those to whom he had 1ntrusteo
commands, and treachery on the part
those WHO udU SdAIiCA Lag
but to betray it, / never heard MIN
utter a complaint nor cast censure
for bad conduct or bad faith. 1t was
his nature to find excuses for his ad-
versaries In this death the nation lost
its greatest hero; in his death the
South lost it's most just friend
Lincoln once said to Sherman that
he was grateful to Sherman and to
Grant because they never scolded him.
With sherman and the brilliant and
dashing Sheridan to supplement Grant
efforts Lincoln felt that at last the con-
duct of the war ON the Union side
was in the hands Of men qualified to
ego forward ana give us victories"
Shermans march to the sea, Sheridans
ride. the "sleepless vigilance such ac-
tive movements betokened, meant that
the day Of dilatory tactics was over.
The tide had turned; the issue OF the
war was in doubt no longer.-Ph1ladel-
phia Ledger