Show when great men die tho nation mourns and WILLIAM TECUMSEH was a groat man with the exception of GEN VON MOLTKE of germany ho was undoubtedly the greatest soldier living in nature be was so widely different from most soldiers his bearing was not haughty his nature was not rough under all circumstances helas a true gentleman it has been said of him that he had the courage of a lion the gentleness of a woman and the simplicity of a child his mind was very versatile but his judgment was always good though ho seemed at times to jump at conclusions rather hurriedly still he never made a serious blunder during his career as a soldier and never suffered defeat he was a hard general to fight because he so often changed his tactics gen GRANT al ways had a fixed plan that he worked to gen SHERMAN would probably alter his whole plan after each at tack for an extremely nervous man he was wonderfully successful as a soldier gen was born in ohio in 1820 As a young man he was sent to west point and graduated in his twenty first year he did military service in florida and in the war with mexico and in 1853 ho resigned his commission and went into the banking business in san francisco after four years experience peri ence as a banker he practiced law in lovenworth kansas in neither vocation did distinguish himself but the civil war gave him an opportunity to take alie highest rank of general he was first commissioned colonel and at the battle of bull alun he commanded a brigade of volunteers and was made brigader general of volunteers in october 1863 he succeeded gen GRANT as commander of the army department part ment of tennessee in march 1864 GRANT was promoted to lieu tenant general and commander of all the union forces and took his commander of the military division of the Mississippi having over a hundred thousand men under his command he at once began the invasion of georgia captured at lanta and made his famous march to tho soa after the war our hero was made lieutenant general and in he succeeded GRANT as commander of the union forces |