Show 1 Blames Estimate of Grant Hnting of Gen Grant Mr Elaine in Twenty Years of Congress says ten Grants active service in the field sed with the surrender of Lee All the nunanders of confederate forces fol red the action of their generalinchief d before the end of the month the Lined enemies of the union had practi itaUv ceased to exist The fame of Gen IJ Tint was full He had entered the serI ser-I with no factitious advantages and promotion from the first to the last lUbecn l based on merit alonewithout j Hld of political influence without the po ition of personal friends Criti Jof military skill is but idle chatter 1 face of an unbroken career of vic aid Gen Grants campaigns have t1 1 in their t requirements and but f 1 i fertility of his resources and his ndil1g will might often have ended I a waster Courage is as contagious as Lr and Gen Grant possessed in the Llmet t degree that faculty which is es sntial to all great commandersthe fac fcv of imparting throughout the rank anJ fill of his army the same determina tinn to win with which he was always himself inspired One peculiarity of Gen Grants mili krv career was his constant readiness to fie ht t He wished for no long periods of preparation lost no opportunity which ITOmptness could turn to advantage He aJways acceptedlitimout cavil or question lime > lotion to which he might be assigned as-signed He never troubled the war de PRtflent with requests or complaints and siien injustice was inflicted upon him he fublflitled filently and did a soldiers duty Few men in any service would we acquiesced so quietly as did Gen want when at the close of the remark able campaign beginning at Fort Henry Jd ending Shiloh he found himself Jjpereededby Gen Halleck and assigned to a Dominate command in an army ivhios0 nopo glory was inseparately associated tit1m i 1 his own name Selfcontrol is the I rst requisite for him who aims to control hers i In that dispensable form of aeatai r Ilrf dlScIplInc Gen Grant exhibited ItCtmomi mVb enIte was appointed lieutenant feae3j thee lId placed in command of all luuihitory aritjes of the union > he exercised men Ihman CQntrol over a greater number of invention n f ally other general since the of iy l a of firearms < In the campaigns n 18GJ the armies in the confainp Ii vo i ic union d a II1l On 111 time aggregate not less than the i n of men The movements of all a 1 f Gen fir or CS were kePt in harmony by in the lit s comprehensive mind and union aiidn0llsutnmat5on > which insured ECParabh Jlertv his name became in of his 1 C7 associated with the true glory |