The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-06-03


| event. One of them is the fact that
Grants soldiers and Lees soldiers be-
gan to fraternize as soon as possible
after the surrender.
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
battlefields, 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 APP
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 seyerest blows the Confederacy
had received, and had won the Unions
GROWING victory by compelling the
surrender of the South's best general
and its most powerful army, showed
himself to be statesman of unusual
wisdom and penetration, and at the
same time a man of great heart-the
very best type of manhood. l do
not feel that l 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 &c.
Gregor in 1885 in way that touches
the hearts of all who served under
Grant. The chaplain said:
Lee adverted to the character OF
Grant, of whom he spoke at length
In the most enthusiastic terms. He
ascrlhed to him the possession of the
srandest attributes of American man.
mood 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.
B" I wish,' said Lee to do simnle
justice to General Grant, when | say
that his action toward my army is
without parallel in the annals of ma
uohs. When my poor soldiers, with
Vanished faces, having neither food
nor raiment, hungry and footsore cana
before him in the no ur of surrender.
1t was then that General Grant i'm.
mediately issued the humane order
mat 10000 rations should be given
them. And that was not all. was
| giving orders to one of nv suhordi.
nate officers. who was making ont the
list of things to be surrendered
'o'u "iin 10 include the horses. At
that very moment General Grant Who
seemed to be paying no attention RI
what was going on. quickly rosa from
the camp stool and said. "No No
eue'al Lee no surrender of horses.
Not one, not one. Keen them eli
Lour poor people will need them for
the spring crops" II was a sooao
never to be forgotten L.
As Lee spoke he paced tho roou,
- !" IN lears streaming down his
caeeks repeated two or three tiroos
the incident Of the surrender
1SNeo MN whom he thought to
a., ,Is s't@'est OF federal soldiers. In.
Who did that?" General c.. ' a. -, "
sreatest Of living Am ertcan or E,rn o
Pean soldl~rs.'"
for tba CO, 10y years ago, in story
presss5 ,h 1850 ilmes-Herald. ex-
wouI4 - Iope mat some day there
mattox 10, ps s nor ument at Apo
PLAYED tha M '01. inquire suitably dis
Genergl - - =. VI General Grant and
ano,bs- = .. auu d soldier in blue and
ton viii IS ; ~ and | hope the ma
years as .alt nsS ~ oGe hundred
whera sDo.b.- 'ne cas- Of Yorktown,