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 Program of Exercises 
 
 FOR USE IN THE 
 
 Schools of the United States 
 
 UPON THE 
 
 One Hundredth Birthday 
 
 OF 
 
 GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT 
 
 April 27, 1922 
 
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 Price per 100 copies, postage included, $2.50 
 

 
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From an Unpublished Photograph of General Grant, taken during his 
 presidency, now in possession of U. S. Grant Post, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 ^f N pursuance of the recommendation of the Committee 
 "^ appointed by the Grand Army of the Republic at its 
 Fifty-fifth National Encampment held in Indianapolis, 
 Indiana, September 25 to October 1 , 1 92 1 for the proper 
 observance of the Centenary of the birth of General 
 Ulysses S. Grant, April 27, 1 922, Lewis S. Pilcher, Com- 
 mander-in-Chief, has authorized the following program 
 as suitable for use in the schools of the land. 
 
 The Grand Army of the Republic earnestly desires 
 that this Memorial Occasion may not pass without leaving 
 deep and abiding impressions upon the hearts of the 
 youth of America and strengthening the faith of those 
 who believe in the God of our Fathers and in the priceless 
 boon of civil and religious liberty. 
 
 Compiled by Levi Longfellow, National Patriotic Instructor, G. A. R. 
 With the assistance of W. F. Webster, Assistant Superintendent of Schools, 
 Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
PROGRAM OF EXERCISES. 
 
 1. MlMi — AMlKltA. FOUR STANZAS. 
 
 2. Sai.ite to Tui: Flac;. 
 
 »v A Stati:mkn"t <•!• th": Hr (asiox and Purpose of the 
 Program. 
 
 4. Mi'sic — One of the Civil War Songs. 
 
 5. Sketch of the Life of Ulysses S. Grant. 
 
 6. RoYnf»OD AND Youth ok Grant. (To be selected by the 
 
 teacher) . 
 
 7. Music — One of the Civil War Songs. 
 
 8. Grant in the Civh, War. 
 
 9. "Tenting on the Old C-Amp-Ground." 
 
 10. Grant at Appomattox. (To be selected by the teacher.) 
 
 11. Mtsic — "Battle Hymn of the Republic." 
 
 12. Grant as President. 
 
 13. McKinley's Appreciation of Grant. 
 
 14. The American Creed. Pupils standing. 
 
 15. The Star Spangled Banner. 
 
SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF ULYSSES S. GRANT. 
 
 Ulysses S. Grant was born April 27, 1822. His father 
 was marked as a hrave man, known among his neighbors as 
 fearless and determined. His nu)ther was a quiet, persistent, 
 devout, high minded woman. He inherited the best qualities 
 of each. 
 
 He entered the Military Academy at West Point July L 
 1839, at the age of seventeen, and was graduated June 30, 
 1843. He was assigned to the Fourth Infantry; entered 
 Mexico as Brevet Second Lieutenant, under General Taylor, 
 in May, 1846; was in his first battle at Palo Alto, May 6, 
 1846; and was breveted for courage and ability on the field 
 twice in five days. 
 
 lie married .Miss Julia B. Dent August 22, 1848; went 
 to California in 1852; resigned from the Army July, 1854; 
 experimented for a time for a living as a coal dealer, real 
 estate agent and farmer; returned to Galena, Illinois, in 1859, 
 where he clerked in his father's leather store till the firing 
 on Fort Sumter. 
 
 In April. 1861, he became a clerk in the Governor's office 
 at Springfield. Illinois; was made Colonel of the Twenty- 
 I'Mrst Illinois Volunteers in June, 1861 ; Brigadier-General 
 julv, 1861; Major-General February, 1862; Lieutenant- 
 General :March 9, 1864; General July 25, 1866; elected Presi- 
 dent of the United States November, 1868. and again Novem- 
 l)er, 1872. 
 
 On lulv 23, 1885. he received his supreme promotion from 
 the summit of Mount McGregor, Xew York. 
 
 "On Fame's eternal camping ground 
 
 His silent tent is spread, 
 .\nd Glorv guards with solemn round. 
 
 The bivouac of the dead." 
 
GRANT IN THE CIVIL WAR. 
 
 General Grant, like Lincoln, was determined to maintain 
 the Union at any cost. 
 
 First at Fort Donelson and then ou the field of Shiloh 
 was demonstrated Grant's wonderful ability to handle men 
 under fire. 
 
 General Grant called these two battles our "first clear 
 victory" in the issue between the North and South, demon- 
 strating the ability of raw recruits to endure and win when 
 properly led. It broke the strategic line of defense of the 
 South and enabled him to send thousands of prisoners to 
 the North. 
 
 Immediately Bowling Green was abandoned; Nashville 
 surrendered without a blow ; Columbus was deserted ; Missouri 
 was secured; Kentucky was practically freed from invaders 
 and Tennessee was restored to the Union. 
 
 It was here that Grant's "unconditional surrender" gave 
 new inspiration to the Army and the Country. 
 
 At Shiloh General Grant illustrated the secret of all his 
 fighting and his instinct for victory. As he stated it himself : 
 "There comes always in a close battle a critical moment when 
 both armies have done their best up to their natural endur- 
 ance. Each is trembling and uncertain at the limit, anxious 
 to see what would come next. To discover this supreme 
 moment and then do more than any man could be asked or 
 demanded to do, strike first and hard, is always to win," 
 
 "Before the gates of Vicksburg, the 'Gibraltar of Amer- 
 ica,' in the passes by Chattanooga, the Marathon of the Cen- 
 tral South, in the marshes of the Wilderness, the Death 
 Valley of the rebellion, Grant broke the military power of 
 the Confederacy." 
 
 His name will be cherished and honored as long as there 
 beats anywhere on the earth a human heart in sympathy 
 with freedom. 
 
 Charles Henry Fowler. 
 
 From "Patriotic Orations" by Permission. 
 
GRANT AS PRESIDENT. 
 
 We must measure an administration as we do a man, 
 by the things achieved. By this rule General Grant's presi- 
 dential administrations put on vast proportions. 
 
 The most difficult thing to be done was to unite the parts 
 of the nation so long estranged and so recently in fiercest 
 conflict. Force can crush a foe, but it is the highest achieve- 
 ment of man's or God's government to soften and win con- 
 quered hearts. 
 
 Next came the restoration of the national credit. The 
 nation had been passing through a deep and protracted 
 financial panic, but under Grant's administration the country 
 paid off and restored national credit and resumed specie pay- 
 ment, and this was honor enough for one man. 
 
 With honesty and integrity for his administration, with 
 national honor and national credit at par, with specie payment 
 for all debts, with peace for the poor Indians, with friendship 
 for Mexico, and hope for Cuba, and the Treaty of Washington 
 in arbitrating the "Alabama Claims" for England, General 
 Grant will be honored as a great President. 
 
 The South emulated the North in praising him, and even 
 England said, "No man has stained the President's honor or 
 questioned his ability." 
 
 Charles Henry Fowler. 
 
 From "Patriotic Orations" by Permission. 
 
McKINLEY'S APPRECIATION OF GRANT. 
 
 The Kreat heroes of the Civil strife on land and sea are for the 
 most part no more. Thomas and Hancock, Logan and McPherson, 
 Farragut, Dupont and Porter and a host or others have passed forever 
 from human sight. Those remaining grow dearer to us and from 
 them and the memory of those who have departed generations yet 
 unborn will draw their inspiration and gather strength for patriotic 
 purpose. 
 
 A great life never dies. Grant's deeds are imperishable. Great 
 names are immortal. General Grant's services and character will 
 continue undiminished in influence and will advance in the estimation 
 of mankind so long as liberty remains the cornerstone of free govern- 
 ment and integrity of life tlie guaranty of good citizenship. 
 
 Faithful and fearless as a volunteer soldier, intrepid and invincible 
 as Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the Union, calm and confident 
 as President of a re-united and strengthened nation which his genius 
 had been instrumental in achieving, he has our homage and that of 
 the world; but brilliant as was his public character, we love him 
 all the more for his home life and homely virtues. 
 
 His individuality, his bearing and speech, his simple ways had 
 a flavor of rare and unique distinction and his Americanism was so 
 true and uncompromising that his name will stand as the embodiment 
 of Liberty, Loyalty and National Unity. 
 
 Victorious in the work which under Divine Providence he was 
 called upon to do; clothed with almost limitless power; he was yet one 
 of the people — patient, patriotic and just. Success did not disturb 
 the even balance of his mind, while fame was powerless to swerve 
 liini from the path of duty. 
 
 Great as he was in war, he loved peace and told the world that 
 honorable arbitration of differences was the best hope of civilization. 
 With Washington and Lincoln, Grant has an exalted place in history 
 and in the affections of the people. To-day his memory is held in 
 equal esteem by those whom he led to victory and by those who 
 accepted his generous terms of peace. New York City holds in its 
 keeping the precious dust of the Silent Soldier; but his achievements 
 —what he and his brave comrades wrought for mankind — are in the 
 keeping of seventy millions of American citizens who will guard the 
 sacred heritage forever and forever more. 
 
 — \Villiiiiii McKinhii, nt ihe tlrdicatioii of the Grant Monument, 
 
 April 27, 1897, New York. 
 
Creeb 
 
 I BELIEVE in the United States of 
 America as a Government of the 
 people, by the people, for the 
 people, whose just powers are derived 
 from the consent of the governed; a 
 democracy in a republic; a sovereign 
 Nation of many sovereign States; a 
 perfect Union, one and inseparable, 
 established upon those principles of 
 freedom, equality, justice and humanity 
 for which American patriots sacrificed 
 their lives and fortunes. 
 
 I therefore believe it is my duty to 
 my country to love it; to support its 
 Constitution; to obey its laws; to re- 
 spect its flag; and to defend it against 
 all enemies. 
 
 NOTE 
 
 The following books are recommended for reference: 
 
 'General Grant" by James Grant Wilson 
 
 "Grant the Man of Mystery" by Col. Nicholas Smith 
 
 "The True Ulysses S. Grant" by Charles King 
 "Ulysses S. Grant" by Hamlin Garland" 
 
 "Campaigning with Grant" by Horace Porter 
 
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