Year: 1863

From the Washington Chronicle.l
GENERAI GRANT is about FIVE fee
nine inches high, has sandy hair an


whiskers, blue eyes, a firm and deter


mined mouth, a well shaped nose, and


complexion that shows the effects of ex


posure. He is very far from what is call


ed handsome man. He has a gooC


form, very square shoulders, and gener


ally stands squarely on his feet, nevel


resting on one leg, or lounging against {


support. He never uses profane or ex


travagant language. He is almost mod


ell of temperance, seldom drinking at all


but he smokes continually. In CONVEX


sation he is rarely animated, except among


his most intimate and familiar eompan-


ions. At the battle of Monterey he was


ordered to carry an order to point


where he had to pass under the fire of a


battery. He put his horse in a full gal


lop, threw himself off on one side, after


the manner of the Indians, holding on by
the horses name and by one leg thrown
over the cantle of the saddle, and in this
position leaped four feet wall Gener-
al Grant was married soon after he left
the Regular Army, and has now three
children, one of whom, a boy about six
years old, is nearly-as goodarider as his
father.


General Grant is an unassuming, mod
est man, has no personal enemies, never
speaks i'll of any one, even those who in
jure him, knows nothing about politics,
has no ambition for Office or distinction,
but only desires to do his duty. Gener-
al Halleck described him very well when
he said: "What 1 like about Grant is,
that when he is ordered to do anything
he sets right about doing it. There are
no objections or evasions or suggestions
of delay-not moments rest until the
order is executed as well as be can do it
with the means at his command. Grant
is not a man of the highest order of in
tellectual ability, but his operations have
shown him to possess strategical skill Of
the highest character, particularly those
since he has heen his own chief But he
is not one that we should set down as
great man; and a person seeing him but
once would almost surely have a mean
opinion of his powers Paradoxical as it
may seem, it has been General Grants
gfeat good fortune to have been always
Newspaper correspondents
who make it their business, to criticise
and dictate, not to narrate events; poll
.icians who have places to fill, and con
-ractors-all have joined in one general
md unbroken denunciation of General
Grant. The conqueror of Fort DoneI-
son, had he been politician, might have
been run for Senator from Illinois, and /
hen some one else WOULD have fought |
he battle of Shiloh, and the twenty days'
campaign at Vicksburg. Had any polit-
cal party undertaken so persistently to
make popular hero out of Grant as
hey have out of some Generals who have
lever won a success, there would have
oeen an anti-Grant party, and another
vrangle about political Generals" For
unately Grant is a soldier, and nothing
'ut soldier; he has said that he wants
o see this war through and then go back
o Galena and sell hardware and leather.
Ie has never had a days leave of alb
enee since he entered the service, though
lis family have twice visited him in
amp. His qualities are not therefore
ppreciated by the people, though they
re by the Government; which may now
eel as great pride in having sustained
Ieneral Grant as in any other instance
hen they have withstood popular clam
r and private expostulation.