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Show LOGAN'S TRIBUTE TO GEANT. memorial Services in Washington A Soldier's Praise for a Dead Comrade. Washington, October 1. Services in memory mem-ory of General Grant were held here this evening under the auspices of the local com-mandery com-mandery of the Grand Army of the Republic Repub-lic in the Metropolitan Church, at which General Grant was a regular attender during his Presidential terms.- The auditorium, one of the largest in the city, was crowded. The funeral chimes were rung from 7 to 8 o'clock, and were followed by an organ voluntary vol-untary by Dr. J. W. Bischoff. The notable feature of the services was the chanting and singing of war songs by the St. Cecelia Ladies Quartette. The meeting was called to order bv Department Commander Brooks, and after prayer by Dr. Huntley, the present pastor of the church, ' GENERAL LOGAN, THE OBATOB OF THE OCCASION, Was introduced and warmly welcomed with the clapping of hands by the audience. TTia speech was frequently interrupted by. the plaudits of the audience, which broke out at the mention of the name of the favorite commander, and at the allusion to the more' conspicuous events in the story of General Grant's career. General Logan's address embodied a recital re-cital from the standpoint of a personal observer ob-server of the military history of General Grant. He began with his own first meeting with Grant at Springfield, Illinois, where the latter was assisting the Governor of his State to organize volunteers under the first call of President Lincoln. He touched briefly, and with little elaboration or comment, com-ment, upon the steps in the upward progress of the subject of his eulogy, ' THE -BlTTLES FOUGHT AND WON And the campaigns planned and carried out. He alluded to the jealousy and bitterness of General Halleck, who, when Grant's superior in rank, made him almost a prisoner at Fort Henry; to Halleck's dilatory movements against Corinth; to his disregard of the advice ad-vice and of the information that the enemy were escaping, and to the fruitless outcome of the campaign, the effect of which, however, how-ever, was to restore Grant to the command of his old Army of the Tennessee. He described de-scribed the failures of General Grant's first movements against Yicksburg, threatening a loss of confidence on the part of the people and resulting in clamors for his removal. The President's confidence, he said, was, however, unshaken, and he determined to trust Grant a little longer. Grant's next plan, the speaker said, was recognized by the military authorities of the country as wholly . unmilitary and dangerous. They believed that it was MTLITAET 'SUICIDE AND AGAINST ALL , THE SCIENCE OF WAR. It was a movement, however, full of audacity, audaci-ty, and in its results showed the genius of the man who planned it. This was the campaign cam-paign which resulted in the fall of Vicks-burg. Vicks-burg. - Halleck had directed Grant to leavo Vicksburg and move down to Port Hudson and assist Banks. Banks being Grant's superior, would thus have been in command of the combined foroes. Halleck' suggested that after Port Hudson should faU,Vicks-burg faU,Vicks-burg should be assailed. Halleck's letter came too late. Five battles had been fought and Grant was already moving on Vicksburg. Pemberton was driven within the walls and locked up with Only sixty days' rations. On the 4th of July, 1883, the long and bloody siege came to its termination, and GRANT AT THE HEAD OF HIS VICTORIOUS ABUT Entered the city and placed the old flag upon the court house. -It was the largest capture of men and munitions of war ever made in any modern war up to that time. In the campaign the enemy's . killed, wounded and captured numbered more than Grant s entire effective force. Port Hudson was at once surrendered and the backbone of the rebellion was broken. ' The .orator touched upon the withdrawal of Bosecrans within the lines of Chattanooga, where he was cooped up with Bragg in possession of his communication. Bosecrans, he said, was completely encircled and apparently in a position where he must sooner or later surrender sur-render for want of supplies,- Grant was ordered or-dered by the President to take command of that department, and his first act was to assign as-sign Thomas to command in place of Bosecrans. Bose-crans. Chattanooga was subsequently relieved re-lieved by Grant and the battles and victories of Lookout Mountain and Mission Bidge followed. Having defeated Bragg and driven him from his stronghold, Grant now commencedTnaturing his plans for THE GREAT FINAL CAMPAIGNS. His idea was to move from Chattanooga to Atlanta, and thence to Mobile, unless something some-thing should intervene in the meantime to direct him in the direction of Savannah from Atlanta. In a letter written that whaler wha-ler Grant said sharp fighting would occur in the spring,- and if the Union forces were successful the war would be ended in a year. Grant was now made Lieutenant-General, and placed in command of the armies of the Republic. But one person, George Washington, Wash-ington, had ever held the position before- Winfield Scott merely held the brevet. On the 3d day of March. 1864, he was ordered to Washington. His intention at that time was to return from .Washington and lead the armies of Sherman,.Thomas and Schofield to Atlanta.' """."Unforsefflnr- events, - however, changed his intentions and forced him East," but his campaign was carried out almost to the letter by others. ; ' '- HAVING ASSUMED THE CHIEF COMMAND J On the 17th of March, he at once proceeded to establish his headquarters in the field at Culpepper, -Virginia. Heretofore the cam- aigns of the different armies had been connoted con-noted without any reference to each other. Grant purposed now that all his campaigns should proceed with but one common end in view. He would combine all his available Western forces under Sherman, and those of the East under Meade, and move the two great armies - toward ;' a common centre. Sherman was to move against Johnson and hammer and pound and follow him until he was destroyed, captured, or driven back to Richmond, where both the rebel armies were to be crushed between the two great armies of the Bepublic. Meade was to advance ad-vance upon Lee and strike him whenever he could be found.' The plan was carried out successfully and in its progress the VICTORIES WERE ACKUSVED WHICH SAVED THE ;. BEPUBLIC. ' - - The speaker described briefly, but in glowing glow-ing terms, the events of Grant's civil career and honor, showered upon-him by our people peo-ple at home, and by men and nations abroad. "From : Belmont to the siege of Vicksburg," Vicks-burg," said General Logan in his summing up, 'I was near him in - nearly all his marches, campaigns and battles, being permitted per-mitted by him to take' possession of Vicksburg Vicks-burg with my command, on account of its having approached nearer the'enemy than any other. During my term as commander of . that oity, I was with him almost every day and from the time when, at the head of that glorious old Army of the Tennessee, of which he was the first Commander and I its i last, ; I marched by his reviewing stand at the National Capital, down to TBB LAST PAINFUL DATS OF HIS MEMORABLE - LIFE, . I was with him very often. During all this while I was a close observer of him. Grant was usually known and recognized as a quiet and silent man, but when engaged in conversation on any subject in w-hioh he felt an interest, there were few who excelled him as a conversationalist. He wrote tersely and well, and at times most eloquently. The nation was at different times thrilled by his terse, epigrammatic sentences. When he wrote to Buckner, the commander at Fort Donelson, 'No terms other than an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted; I propose to move immediately upon your works;' his words burned with a glow of patriotic fire in the heart of every loyal freeman. When he had fought the battle of the Wilderness and wrote to the President, 'I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer,' he infused . into the people and his troops a part of HIS OWN TENACITY AND FAITH IN THE FINAL SUCCESS. In his short speech to the committee who waited upon him, informing him of his nomination nom-ination first made by the Republicans as their candidate for Chief Magistrate, he used these memorable words in his conclusion, conclu-sion, 'Let us have peace.' These words fell upon the people with an electrical effect. His coolness of perception, his aptness in using the right thing at the right time, were at the bottom of his success as a civil magistrate, magis-trate, just as his great faculty of doing the right thing at the right time and place, and sometimes in the most unexpected manner, was at the bottom of his military success." The speaker described the subject of his eulogies as a man of great strength of intellect, intel-lect, of remarkable common sense, coolness, self-possession and tenacity. A true friend to those worthy of his friendship, and the kindest and best of husbands and fathers, he -fought not for glory, but to save his country. When criticised and censured, and when the clouds of calumny hung about him, HE STOOD WITH FOLDED ARMS AMID THE THUN-- THUN-- DEBS, Witnessing the wrath of his enemies, but he spoke not in his own defense. Time finally dispelled the clouds and let in the sunshine of honest judgment, and then his heart was found as pure as the dew-drop which hung upon the lips of the velvet rose. He believed be-lieved in the justice of God, and that sooner or later He would by some means guide him as commander of the armies to the line where justice would take the place of wrong, and "man's inhumanity toman" be properly rebuked. "But," continued the speaker, "his race has been run. The great and good man went up on the mountains to die, and the attention of the whole civilized world was attracted to that spot. His glory was not that of his country alone, but of. the civilized races of man. When the news of his death went trembling over the wires to the utmost parts of the earth, the people of every nation, and tongue, stood with bowed heads. Grant had in his life ascended THE TOPMOST HEIGHTS OF MORTAL. FAME. The greatest renown was his. The glory of man's greatest achievements shone around and about him. God called him, and he stepped from his high pedestal on this earth into the presence of the 'Great Whit9 Throne, where he was crowned with the immortal im-mortal glory that Bhineth on forever." The services concluded with a benediction and a concert of patriotic airs upon the bells. |