Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-11
MOSBY ON GRANT.
Southerner's RecoIlections Of the
Northern Commander Are Grateful.

one OF the hard lighting regiments
of the Civil War was Colonel John S.
Moseby's Fighting PartisanS" The
commander 0t these men later knew
General L. :. Grant and revered him.
His recollections of the Northern com
nander are told in Munsey's Magazine.
| have mentioned the fact that had
strong personal reasons for being
friendly To General Grant. If he had
not thrown his shield over me | should
have been outlawcd and driven into
exile. Ny battalion was in Northern
Virginia on the Potomac hundred
miles from AppomattoX. when General
Lee surrendered. The Secretary Of
War. Mr. stanton. Immediately issued
an order directing that all Confederate
soldiers III Virginia should be invited
10 surrender and offering them the
same paroles that were given to Lees
Army, hut the order excepted me per-
sonally. General Grant. who was then
all powerful. interposed, and sent mo
IN offer of the same parole that he
lad given General Lee. Such a service
could never forget.
He also did another thing which
showed the generosity OF his nature.
\ lew NttlkS UtlOIt INV SURRENDER a
small party of my men crossed the
Potomac one night and got into
fight in which detective was killed.
One Of the men was captured and sent
To Fort McHenry. After the war he
was tried By q military commission
ard sentenced to be imprisoned. The
boys mother went TO see President
Johnson to beg a pardon for her son.
but johnson repelled her.
In her distress the mother went over
To the War Department to see General
Grant. He listened patiently to her
sorrowful story, then rose and asked
her to 60 with him. He took her to
the White House. walked into the re-
ception room and told the President
that there had been suffering enough.
and that he would not leave the room
without pardon for the Young South
erGcr. Johnson signed the necessary
paper.
After my parole. I often was arrest
cd and otherwise molested.
When my wife passed through Wash
irgton on her way to Baltimore, she
determined to go to the White House
To make Il complaint. Her father and
President Johnson had served in Com
greSS together. and had been friends:
so she told Johnson whose daughter
and whose wife she was. He refused
her. She left him and went to see
General Grant NJ the War Department.
He treated her as courteously as il
size had been the wife Of a Union SOL
dicr. ana then wrote a letter which he
gave 10 her. He did not dictate the
handwriting. 1t gave me liberty to
travel anywhere unmolo stod. as long
as | observed my parole. / preserve
that letter. framed. among nv most
precious possessions. ~
lie always spoke in the friendliest
manner of his old Amy comrades who
went with the South. once. speaking
Of Stonewall Jackson. who was with
Linn at West Point. he said to me:
Jackson WAS the most. conscientious
being | ever knew
| saw Grant the day when he signed
the electoral commission bill to decide
the Hayes Tiden dispute. He was in
an unusually good humor. and said
that the man in whose favor the COM
mission decided should be inaugurated
He talked a good deal about his early
life in the army and gave a descrip-
ton of his first two battles-PaIo Alto
and Resaca de la Palma.--Pittsburg
Dispatch