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Owen Wister, Ulysses S. Grant, IV. (search)
, but stood his friend. In June, 1851, Sackett's Harbor became regimental Headquarters; and Grant was there for twelve months, when he was ordered to the Pacific by way of the Isthmus. On account of her health, Mrs. Grant did not go with him. He passed the next year on the Columbia River, at what is now Fort Vancouver, where he was both post and regimental quartermaster. One last year he spent as captain of F Company, Fourth Infantry, at Humboldt Bay. Then he left the army, resigning July 31, 1854. Such were his moves and removes. Of his doings the tale is equally brief. He was known for his exploits with horses. Otherwise he was unknown save to the very few brought by chance or duty into familiarity with him. To provincial blood and environment he added an extraordinary personal powerlessness to express himself or go through his manners. In fact, he had no manners, which is far better than having bad ones, to be sure; and a certain something in him seems to have held even
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)
is foe's weakness in the same respects. Grant had learned that if he did not run away his antagonists were likely to do so, and he had ascertained the potency of the formulas with which his name was associated: no terms except unconditional and immediate surrender, and I propose to move immediately upon your works. this met the temper of the time, impatient of strategy and paper plans and demanding tangible results. the circumstances which led to Grant's resignation from the army, July 31, 1854, however they might have been explained by those who knew him best, had created a distrust of him in the minds of his military superiors, Halleck and McClellan, so that he was left wholly dependent upon works accomplished for his recognition by the North and at Washington. He neither sought nor obtained favor from his superiors; he made no complaint of insufficient support, as so many did, but doggedly pursued a consistent course of doing the best he could with what the War Department p
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 36: first session in Congress.—welcome to Kossuth.—public lands in the West.—the Fugitive Slave Law.—1851-1852. (search)
that a man with a conscience had arisen in the legislative body of the Union. Vol. IV. pp. 219-221. The speech was reviewed from a pro-slavery standpoint in A. S. Bledsoe's Liberty and Slavery. The work which Sumner began in 1852 with only three coadjutors, he finished, as the sequel will show, twelve years later, when he reported and carried the repeal of all laws for the rendition of fugitive slaves. Sumner made an attempt to bring in a bill to repeal the Fugitive Slave law, July 31, 1854, but was voted down by ten yeas to thirty-five nays. He made another effort for the repeal, Feb. 23. 1855, which was voted down,—yeas nine, nays thirty. He wrote to John Bigelow, August 30:— The kind interest you express in my speech tempts me to the confidence of friendship. I shall be attacked, and the speech will be disparaged. But you shall know something of what was said on the floor of the Senate. A letter of Sumner to Rev. Dr. R. P. Stebbins, from Newport, Oct. 12,
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 49: letters to Europe.—test oath in the senate.—final repeal of the fugitive-slave act.—abolition of the coastwise slave-trade.—Freedmen's Bureau.—equal rights of the colored people as witnesses and passengers.—equal pay of colored troops.—first struggle for suffrage of the colored people.—thirteenth amendment of the constitution.— French spoliation claims.—taxation of national banks.— differences with Fessenden.—Civil service Reform.—Lincoln's re-election.—parting with friends.—1863-1864. (search)
se importance for us abroad; Earl Russell stated in the House of Lords, April 29, 1864, that the retention of this Act had repelled sympathy for the federal cause. but its practical importance at home is not great, except that every blow at slavery is practically important, so that it is difficult to measure it. Sumner's first motion to repeal the Fugitive Slave Act was made Aug. 26, 1852, when it received only three votes besides his own. His second motion for the repeal was made July 31, 1854, when ten senators voted for it; and his third was made Feb. 23, 1855, when nine senators voted for it. Ante, vol. III. pp. 303, 304, 393, 412. After a struggle of twelve years his courage and pertinacity prevailed. He said in debate, April 19, 1864:— Often, in other times, I have discussed these questions in the Senate and before the people; but the time for discussion is passed. And permit me to confess my gladness in this day. I was chosen to the Senate for the first time im
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Index (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), G (search)
., 19; during the wilderness, X., 29; on Lookout Mountain, X., 30, 32; in 1863, X., 33; before Vicksburg, X., 35; after Vicksburg, X., 35; at United States Military Academy, X., 36; in 1864, X., 37; his ancestors, X., 38; in the autumn of 1863, X., 39; in the autumn of 184, X., 39; death of, X., 40; self-confidence of, X., 40; at City Point, in June, 1864, X., 41; his skill as drillmaster, X., 42; on his first trip north, X., 43; at Shiloh, X., 44; in 1865, X., 45; resignation from army, July 31, 1854, X., 46: with staff in 1864, X., 47; with Gen'l Rawlins, X., 49; at City Point, Va., 1865, 49; as an author, X., 50; policies as President, X., 50; generosity of, to Confederates, X., 136; war horse Cincinnati, X., 301. Grant, U. S., Jr. IX., 119. Grant, U. S., 3d, IX., 119. Grant, Mrs. U. S.: III., 13; IX., 119. Grapevine bridge. Va. I., 279, 299. Grappe's Bluff, La., VI., 229. Gratiot Street Prison, St. Louis, Mo. , VII., 44, 46, 54 seq.,65 seq.
The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], Stop the Runaways--$1000 reward. (search)
and was commissioned 1st July, 1843, Brevet 2d Lieutenant 4th Infantry United States Army. Transferred to 7th Infantry; in 4th Infantry again, November, 1845; Brevet 1st Lieutenant "for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Molino del Rey," 8th September, declined; Regimental Quartermaster, April, 1847; 1st Lieutenant, September, 1847; Brevet Captain "for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Chepultepec, 13th September, 1847;" Full Captain, August, 1858; resigned 31st July, 1854. Since his resignation from the army nothing is known by me of his occupation until the present war. I only know now that he is the most formidable man that is opposed to us, by odds. Grant is now in his 42d year, quite young to be at the head of all the armies in the United States; but I believe all, or most of Napoleon's Marshals were not older than Grant; though none of them had a tithe such a force as Grant has, and were under the immediate eye of "le grand Napoleon le premier.