The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-05-28

For nearly four years they had
made it their business to kill, MAIN
| and capture as many as possible OF
each other.
Look at them now, at Appomattox,
at the end of the awful struggle. The
one dining and trying to minimize the
embarrassment and humiliation of the
other.
| They had marched thousands OF
| miles hunting for or trying to get away
from each other-they had met on
the plains of Bull Run, at Antietam,
| Fredericksburg, Charlottesville. Get.
| tysburg, in the Wilderness. at Spott'
sylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg
and on score or more Of other
battlefelds, and there they were at
Appomattox. on friendly terms, re-
| specting each other. the Yankee with
| the delight he did not try>to express
lest he wound his brother in diff
ferent uniform. and tn Johnny in the
gloom of defeat, but making the best
of it, and his fellow soldier in blue
helping him to make the best of it
Here is another happening at Ap.
pomattox which it is we'll for US to
| remember-for all classes: The broad
humanity and timely generosity ex.
hibited by our silent but great brave
old leader, Grant He who had been
by far the most successful of the
Union commanders. who had inflicted
| the severest blows the Confederacy
had received, and had won the Unions
crowning victory by compelling the
surrender of the South's best general
and its most powerful army, showed
himself to be a statesman of unusual
| wisdom and penetration, and at the
same time man Of great heart--the
very best type of manhood. | do
| not feel that ] can do justice to the
painting, hence recall an interview
Chaplain George w. Pepper had with
General Lee in 1865. in which the Con.
| federate commander pictured the old
commander who died on Mount Nc
Gregor in 1885 in a way that touches
the hearts of all who served under
Grant. The chaplain said:
Lee adverted t. the character of
Grant, of whom he spoke at length
| In the most enthusiastic terms. He
ascribed to him the possession of the
| grandest attributes of American man.
hood and said that he possessed the
military talents requisite for the or
ganization OF armies. In the generous
terms accorded to the impoverished
South, of which he spoke several
| times, Grant had won for himself i'm
| perishable renown.
81 WISH said Lee, to do simple
justice to General Grant. when | say
that his action toward my army is
without parallel in the annals of ma
tons. When my poor soldiers, with
| famished faces. having neither food
nor raiment, hungry and tootsore, came
before him in the hour Of surrender.
it was then that General Grant i'm.
mediatety issued the humane order
that 10000 rations should be given
| them. And that was not all. | was
giving orders to one of my subordi-
nate officers, who was making out the
| list of things to be surrendered. |
| told him to include the horses. At
that very moment General Grant. who
| seemed to be paying no attention to
what was going on, quickly rose from
| the camp stool and said: mo. no.
General Lee, no surrender of horses.
| Not one. not one. Keep them all
Your poor people will need them for
| the spring crops" It was a scene
| never to be forgotten
'As Lee spoke he paced the room.
and with tears streaming down his
cheeks repeated two or three times
! the incident of the surrender.
Il asked him whom he thought to
be the greatest of federal soldiers In
deed, sir, judged by Napoleon's test of
Who did that?" General Grant is the
greatest of living American or Euro.
mean soldj rs'"