Seward daily gateway., 1925-02-10
CIVIL WAR GENERALS
 DAYS OF PIONEERING
 IN OREGON RECALLED
(By Associated Press)

| SPOKANE, Wn, FeD. lO.-LlttIe known incidents in the early army careers of Generals Ulysses s. Grant, Phil Sheridan and George P Nc Clellan are related in an account of year they spent at old Fort Van couver, Oregon territory, written by Mrs Della B. Sheffield, who as the wife of a sergeant in the Fourth United States infantry, the command to which they were attached, shared their pioneering experiences there in pre-Civil war days.
 A movement has been launched to restore old Fort Vancouver near what is now Vancouver, Wash, across the Columbia river from Portland, Ore. The Fourth United States in- fantry, one of the pioneer organiZa- tions of the army, now is stationed at Fort George Wright, Spokane
 Mrs. Sheffield's memoirs of these days have been made public by Will jam s. Lewis, historian of the East ern Historical Society, who receiv- ed them from Mrs. Caroline Hatha- way Cook, Mrs. Sheffield's daughter.
 General, then Captain Grant, was Iregimental quartermaster and was in charge of the transportation of the Fourth infantry on it's long journey from Governors Island, New York, to Fort Vancouver in 1852 The trip was commenced on July ,, by steam CT for Aspinwall, Panama by train, boat, on muleback and afoot The officers were accompanied by their families and some of the women carried small babies.
 To add to the difficulties of the journey, the California gold rush was in full swing, and after the reg iment had boarded a steamer on the Pacific side of the isthmus, Asiatic cholera broke out. San Francisco was reached September 1, but no shore leave was granted for fear 1 of assertions to seek gold At Ben ecia, Cal, an army post, the regi- ment went into camp to recuperate until September IS, and then again boarded ship for Fort Vancouver, which was reached some days later.
 Besides the army barracks there, the town consisted of the Hudson's Bay Company's trading post and a dozen log huts of Indian and half which carried on extensive trapping operations with Fort Vancouver as the base.
 In order to raise the money to bring his family from the east, Cap tain Grant with a fellow officer leas- ed tract of land not far from the fort, which he planted to potatoes and oats. However, Mrs. Sheffields account relates, the river flooded out the crops.
 In the spring of 1853 Captain Grant asked Mrs. Sheffield to take into her home as boarders himself Lieutenant Phil Sheridan, Captain George B. Mcclellan and two others. When she objected that she would be unable to care for so large house. ] hold, Captain Grant replied:
 "Oh, that can be easily managed. shall detail one of the soldiers who l is a good cook to do the cooking, and besides, I have an excellent cook book and am pretty good cook myself. I am sure that we shall manage very we'll
 Grant missed his wife very much at this time and frequently expressed desire to resign from the army and live with his family, which some time later he did After the potato failure, Grant and his business as sociate bought all the chickens for 20 miles around and chartered yes sel to ship them to market in San Francisco The ship returned with the news that the chickens had died on the way, however, thus dealing second blow to Grants fortunes.
 When Grant was ordered to report for duty at Humboldt, Cal, he gave Mrs. Sheffield his cook book, his feather pillows and some trinkats.
 During Grants stay of one year at Fort Vancouver he had not made an enemy and gained the friendship and good will of everybody Mrs. Shef-