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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Chapter 1: Ulysses Simpson Grant (search)
d, again and again, before the Confederate fire, but each time weakened the attenuated line which confronted them. for he was a man of unusual domesticity, and tenacity of friendship not always distinguished by perspicacity in discerning character. to the sincere but unobtrusive piety of his mother, Grant owed a reverence for religion which he displayed throughout life and which supported him during that last desperate struggle with death, ending at Mount MacGREGORregor, New York, on July 23, 1885. his belief in the invisible powers was the hidden current of the great soldier's life. It explains alike his calmness in victory and his unfaltering courage in defeat. There was no shock of battle so fierce, no episode of the combat so exciting that could disturb his impassible demeanor. I have had many hard experiences in my life, he once said to the writer, when chatting in front of his camp-fire at Petersburg, but I never saw the moment when I was not confident that I should win