Grant, ULYSSES SIMPSON, eighteenth of the 21st Illinois Infantry. In May, President of the United States; named at 1861, he was appointed a brigadier-general birth HIRAM ULYSSES, but, through an of volunteers, and placed in command at error when he entered the Military Cairo. He occupied Paducah, broke up Academy, he was given the Christian the Confederate camp at Belmont, and in names which he afterwards adopted; born February, 1862, captured Forts Henry and

in Point Pleasant, O., April 27, 1822; Donelson. He was then promoted to graduated at West Point in 1843. He major general; conducted the battle of served in the war with Mexico, first under Pittsburg Landing, or Shiloh, and for a General Taylor, and then under General while was second in command to Halleck. Scott, taking part in every battle between He performed excellent service in the Vera Cruz and the city of Mexico. He West and Southwest, especially in the was made captain in 1853, and resigned vicinity of the Mississippi River, and at the next year, when he settled in St. and near the Tennessee River, in 1863. Louis. He was one of the first to offer He was promoted to lieutenant-general his services to the national government March 1, 1864, and awarded a gold medal when the Civil War broke out, but, as no by Congress. He issued his first order as notice was taken of him, became colonel general-in-chief of the armies of the Unit

ed States at Nashville, March 17, 1864. dent of the United States by the Republi

can party, and was re-elected in 1872. He retired from the office March 4, 1877, and soon afterwards made a journey around the world, receiving great honors everywhere.

In the grand movements of the armies in 1864, he accompanied that of the Potomac, with his headquarters "in the field," and he remained with it until he signed the articles of capitulation at Appomattox Courthouse, April 9, 1865. In 1866 he Towards the close of his life he was was promoted to general of the United financially ruined by an unprincipled States army. After the war Grant fixed sharper. Congress created him a general his headquarters at Washington. When on the retired list; and, to make further President Johnson suspended Stanton from provision for his family, he began comthe office of Secretary of War, Grant piling Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, a was put in his place ad interim. Stan- work that was completed shortly before ton was reinstated by the Senate, Jan. 14, his death, on Mount McGregor, N. Y., 1868. In 1868, Grant was elected Presi- July 23, 1885. His remains lie in the

magnificent mausoleum

in

THE GRANT MEDAL

Riverside proper, to lay down a policy to be adhered Park, New York City, that cost $500,000, to, right or wrong. Through an adminraised principally by popular subscription. See ARMY (Army in the Civil War; Disbanding of the Union Armies); LEE, ROBERT EDWARD.

WASHINGTON, D. C., May 29, 1868. To Gen. Joseph R. Hawley, President National Republican Convention:

In formally accepting the nomination of the "National Union Republican Convention" of the 21st of May last, it seems proper that some statement of views, beyond the mere acceptance of the nomination, should be expressed.

The proceedings of the convention were marked with wisdom, moderation, and patriotism, and, I believe, expressed the feelings of the great mass of those who sustained the country through its recent trials. I endorse their resolutions.

If elected to the office of President of the United States, it will be my endeavor to administer all the laws in good faith, with economy, and with the view of giv ing peace, quiet, and protection every where. In times like the present, it is impossible, or at least eminently im

istration of four years, new political issues, not foreseen, are constantly arising, the views of the public on old ones are constantly changing, and a purely administrative officer should always be left free to execute the will of the people. I always have respected that will, and al