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Show GENERAL GRANT S BIRTHDAY Today the people of Illinois are i olebrating General Granl - birthday, and the event 1b holding the ait anion i,t' the nation to a marked degree by reason of. the fact that President Harding and party are present and the president made an addresn One hundred years ago a son nr-S nr-S rived at the home of Jesse Grant, a tanner, and he was christened Ulysses. I'lysses S. Grant was unknown to lame even after he had made his first bid for recognition. He had served in the Mexican war and returned to Galena, Ga-lena, III , without being pointed to as distinguished. Then the Civil war broke out and his military training ;md experience gave him his opportunity. opportu-nity. Up lo the time Grant took supreme command, the Northern armies were not making progress and the South was causing Lincoln sleepless nights Then Grant began to more thoroughly organize and to more aggressively strike at the enemy. He was so determined de-termined as at timeB to receive criticism criti-cism to the effect that he did not value human life as he should. But his relentless, vigorous -methods proved he kew how to wage Buccess-tul Buccess-tul battles. Grant's strategy was studied by European Eu-ropean military authorities and even in the late world war the commanding officer acknowledged they had found m our Civil war maneuvers of value m the most modern warfare. As a matter oi fact trench fighting was lirst utilized in the Civil war, as was indirect gun fire. General Grant's biggest mistake was political. Having been elected president presi-dent twice, he allowed his name to go before the Republican convention for u third time, and. with wisdom, his party went on record as opposed to i en the nation's greatest war hero, being looked upon as having kingly rogfttlvee Grant himself was some-hat some-hat opposed to a third term, but his political friends insisted and by so do-,ng do-,ng brought upon him adverse com ment. |