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Y. m^i' ^o^»' V I Oui\ Geheral Entered according to Act of Congress, in the 3'ear 1868, by Olmsted & Welwood, in the Clerk's Office of the Dis- trict Court, for the Southern District of New York. J. J. Reed, Printer, 43 Centre St. OUB GENEKAL; ULYSSES S. GRANT. |HE youth of a nation should know its great military chieftains, to- gether with those of other na- tions of the age. Their reading may not have been sufficiently extensive to em- brace so wide a range as this knowledge would imply, hence the necessity of every man contributing his quota to the com- mon fund. Thoughts are evolved in one mind not perceived by another, producing con- stantly increasing light on subjects sup- posed to be well understood, illuminating a present or passing theme, or calling up, as from obhvion, the recollections of schoolboy days or academic toil. The advancement of the young men of tliis nation and a recreative review, is the only apology for this paper. " OUB General," Ulysses S. Grant, is a most profitable study for American youth. Now that the war-scenes are passed, and events are receding into distant, more fixed, and historic perspective, things connected with that memorable four j^ears are falling into their relative and appropriate positions, and the char- acters of the men of those eventful years are assuming then* proper proportions. As sober history takes her venerable scroll, and makes up her imperishable records of men, it would be incomplete without names. Thus, American his- tory has been, and still will be, written. American annals must go upon the pages of Time's ponderous folios, but not with- out some noble lines for U. S. Grant. The writer of the present day cannot fix the true position of Grant. Like all other heroes, he must " sleep his last sleep, and fight liis last battle," ere his true character can be fulhj weighed and appreciated. But we may even here be i3ermitted to draw a fevf parallels with other great captains, presenting points of likeness or dissimilarity, in order that our gen- eral may stand forth in his true and aproximate greatness. Grant is distinguished fok a faith- ful STUDY OF HIS ANTAGONIST. From Bishop Leonidas Polk, General of the so-called " Confederate States of America," to Piobert E. Lee, the heavi- est brain of the " Great Rebellion," he knew his man. Whether it is Polk at Columbus, Ky., Buckner, Floyd and Co., at Fort Donel- son, Beauregard at Pittsburg Landing, Pemberton, Johnson & Co., at Yicks- burg, Bragg, Davis & Co., at Chatta- nooga, Lee, Longstreet and Co., at the 6 Wiklerness, Spottsylvania, Cold Har- bor, Petersburg and Eiclimond ; all and each were successively read, studied, un- derstood and conquered by this far-see- ing commander. Whether in planning his campaign, in marshalling his battalions, or executing long and dangerous marches ; whether in strategic movements, in terrible sieges, in quick and sudden advances, or in negotiations, he was ever master of his foe. It may be safely said that Grant al- ways knew who was his antagonist and what he was doing, at all hours, day or night. From the sound in camp he was able to interpret the movements of his en- emy, and by his silence was able to dis- cover his concealment. A remarkable instance of this faculty is shown in the struggles of Lee in his endeavors to extricate himself from the more than iron grasp in which Grant held him and his legions at Eichmond, during the summer of 1864:. Breckenridge had made every possible effort to render successful his famous at- tack on "Washington. Lee had spared every possible man from his intrench- ments at Bichmond, for this all-import- ant strategic movement for the capture of the seat of government. Lee was watching his calm but persistent adver- sary, hoping that he would instantly dash off in defence of the Capitol. To stimulate this movement, Lee sent to the secessionists at Washington most startling reports of troops coming up through the Shenandoah Valley, that the City of Washington, about to be cap- tured, was already cut off from all com- munications with the North, and the city itself — the prize of the race — was in the highest fever of excitement, not knowing what was to be its fate. All sorts of rumors were flying, with some at the North hoping, even joraying^ 8 tliat the " Confederates" might come doTMi like the eagle's swoop upon the defenceless city; while others were utter- ing every conceivable conjecture in refer- ence to the movements of Grant, in regard to the protection of Washington. Sunday morning came, and with it the " Old Sixth Corps" — twenty thousand strong — veterans from City Point. None were more astonished than the rebels, when they beleaguered Fort Ste- vens and found the too well-remembered *' Sixth" in their front. It is related, that on that Sunday morning, a civilian at City Poini told Grant the news he had just heard, that Lee had sent. 90,000 veteran troops from the intrenchments at Eichmond, to the attack on AVashinj^ton. Mark the laco- nic reply of Grant — " I wish he had sent 30,000 even," — showing that he well knew the strength of his antagonist, and how many troops he could spare for a distant movement. It is said, that a single glance at the field position of liis opponent revealed to him, as by intuition, the whole field-plot of the enemy. His manner of treatment of opposing commanders was various. To Buckner he was bold, short, and defiant ; while to Lee he was gentle, firm, and depreca- tory, and showed a disposition to reason with his enemy, on the possibilities of a hopeless cause. Flags of truce never caught this wary fighter off his guard ; nor did the suit for "armistice," for funeral purposes, find him disposed to sleep, while his cunning foe outran him to the next goal. This happy faculty of reading his man made him master of the mentality of each of his numerous antagonists. He saw their powers and defects ; their strength and their weaknesses. He di- vined all their- needs, and was ready to press these necessities to their defeat and capture. 10 He seemed to know to the very day wlien their resources must fail, and how. Yicksburg was reduced to nearly abso- lute starvation, while Grant was ordering his well-fed legions to assault the fam- ishing hosts of the enemy, when Pem- berton saw at a glance that his army was not only now as game in the hands, but had been before in the head of Grant. Bragg was strongly intrenched in the mountain-fastnesses of Mission and Lookout ranges, and felt himself secure in his strong position ; doubting not that he would soon be in possession of Chat- tanooga. But Grant must flank his antagonist by Hooker's movement on his left and rear, fight him by Sherman's Division on his extreme right, while he should boldly meet him in the face, by his own deadly onset upon his centre. EiCHMOND had been fortified to the last degree, until the friends of the Eebel 11 cause, botli in this country and in Europe, had boasted of its impregnability. But Grant fought his way up to, and around the flanks of each stronghold to the last battle at Five Forks, at the extreme right of Lee's fortifications at Petersbueg. it may be well, at this point, to turn our attention to other great captains, in whom this quality stands out promi- nently. Alexander the Great read the position of the Persian army, from the moment his Grecian Phalanx crossed the swol- len waves of the Granicus, and at once plunged into the Persian hosts drawn up to oppose him on the other shore. His plan, in every engagement, was to drive a diamond-shaped phalanx of Gre- cians into the Persian centre, thus break- ing into two disordered halves the army of his antagonist, and wheeling upon either half in turn, dash them in pieces. Caesar, too, bore the same character- istics. 12 Whether grappling with the Gallic princes far toward the Ziiyder Zee, or with Pompey on the plains of Pharsaha, he everywhere gave the most ample evi- dence of knowing his antagonist. On every page of his Commentaries, the stu- dent finds traces of the most minute study of the arts, maneuvres, plans, works, and positions of his adversary. He had an eagle's eye to see, and an eagle's talons to seize his foe ; while he could not be deceived by the most sub- tle strategy, or beaten by the most pow- erful legions. This intimate knowledge of his enemy prompted the order to " aim at the faces of the knights of Pvome," for thousands of the handsomest young men of Home, of Patrician birth, were in the saddle, among the cavalry of Pompey's army. His favorite method of crushing an adversary was to break his centre, or flank a w^ing. Caesar triumphed, but Home lost her liberties, when the legions 13 of Pompey broke in the centre, on the plains of Pharsalia. All this is pre-eminently true of the great Napoleon. From his first grand conflict in Italy, at the bridge of Lodi, to the last terrible encounter at Water- loo, this great general was a skilful reader of his antagonist. Perhaps no leader of any host has ever been confronted with so many and va- ried enemies on the battle-field. But he seemed to read his men by the page and chapter. It was only necessary for him to get sight of the battle-plan of the foe through his glass, and he was ready at once to open the game. Human nature was ever as an open volume to the eye of Napoleon, but never more so than when a page was presented, as a rival, in the vesture of Mars. Not a feature escaped his perusal, and having gained knowledge, he knew well how to appropriate it. u Thus, in all tliese great men, the ability to read an antagonist, and learn his true position, was made the fulcrum on which turned the successes of war. Beauregard was vain of his reputation as an engineer, and this vanity made him a weak opponent in the open field, and for this he dashed away all his breath ^nd strength on the first day's fight at Pittsburg Landing; and when on the second day he met a tenacious fighter squariQg away for him, stronger and braver for the action of the previous en- cgagement, he had no strength for the .encounter. Grant seldom had fair trials of strength, for his enemy was generally behind his fortifications, and had thus 'every desu-able advantage. Could he have joined issue in the open field in the style of old Roman warfare, his intuitive knowledge of men and position would have been more apparent, ranking in 15 this particular with Alexander, Caesar, and Napoleon. As it was, it became ex- tremely difficult for his enemies to steal away from him, by night or day, though they had proved themselves remarkable for this kind of strategy. A line of fortifications, of from one to five miles in extent, becomes a conve- nient spot to play a thousand cards to ruin the plans of an opposing general, which none but a genius of the first order can successfully meet and overcome. It is not like taking sight at so many pins and then rolling shot and shell to knock them over, A battle-field is an ever- shifting panorama. Each company, or regiment, or brigade, or division, or corps, is not a machine so many yards in length, but is composed of many vol- untary integers, and is ever a variable quantity. One minute may change dis- aster to success, or success to disaster, unless the general holds the minds of all within his grasp. 16 Grant is eemaekable for haying re- sources IN HAND. Whatever tlie topograpliy of a country, and whatever the difficulties to overcome, he was ready to meet them. When or- ders were given he seemed to be present, either in person or by his subordinates, to execute them. He rarely made a movement, and then, like Entellus, the aged boxer of Yirgil, dealt weighty blows without reaching his antagonist. Nor did he strike for personal or political effect, but for the destruction of the en- emies of his country. The Peninsular campaign was remark- able for mast-erly strategic movements of the noble old Army of the Potomac, in McClellan's efforts against Eichmond. But Piichmond was the objective point of another campaign, with fewer troops and smaller resources. That city fell because a general had taken the field who purposed to use every power within 17 liis reach to accomplish his purpose. From his first effort in the department of Cairo, to his last attack on Lee, at the Five Forks, Grant was remarkable for striking blows which contained comjDoimd forces. While his own eye surveyed what his own hand held in its grasp — the chief effort of the campaign — he had side issues not unlike the expedition which Lee intrusted to Stonewall Jack- son in the valley of the Shenandoah. "While the toils of Lee were being woven around McClellan on the Chickahominy, he was at the same time preparing to strike a blow, which continued its re- verberations till om- forces were safe- ly housed, yet beaten and exhausted, at Harrison's Landing, on the James Piiver. Within the entire limits of his com- mand, the work of each officer was laid out, and he knew how to time that work with his own, so that it " might, could, would, and shonlcV be going on simulta- 18 neously with liis own work. Wliile liis own vast combinations were unrolling themselves to view, they were at the same time compelling the enemy to pay all attention to him and his gen- erals. Nor conlcl they do this without putting forth more than the power of espionage. It was that of instant, vigorous action, to the utmost of their resources. From beyond the Mississippi to the stirring scenes of Old Virginia, this one mind seemed not only to comprehend his re- sources, but' was able to apply the mi- nutest as well as the gi-eatest of these to the common purpose. How this great work was accomplished is incomprehen- sible to those outside of his own field of vision. To make this more apparent, we may be allowed to specify. At Fort Donelson, the army and the navy vied together in the struggle for victory. But when the fleet had been 19 discomfited and driven back, the army was within two days of a complete vic- tory. Had the fleet followed Grant's style of warfare, Floyd had not stolen that march, to the chagrin and mortifica- tion of the Federal arm}'. That land attack will not soon be for- gotten by the quondam friends of seces- sion, who spent weary days and sleepless nights on its fortifications, and who loudly proclaimed that the entire North coidd not take it — not if every man in the free States were launched upon this Gibraltar of America at once. But what a multitude of foolish boasting and brag- gadocio was dissipated by Grant's three days' fighting in front of the fortifications of this first formidable stronghold of the " Eebellion !" The same is true of the terrible con- test with Beauregard, at the battle of Pittsburg Landing. Grant has the credit of having fought his forces over three times before the end of that terrible and 20 momentous Monday, when the friends of fi-eedom at the North had, as it were, their hearts in their mouths, while the sympathizers with treason were making joyful demonstrations in anticipated tri- umphs over Eadicalism and Massachu- setts fanatics. It is clearly proved that in that strug- gle Beauregard had large forces drawn from the East, as the soldiers met them face to face, and they knew each other, and they were both among the slain on the field of battle. Equally true is our point, as demon- strated in the taking of Ticksburg. Here, every power was employed by Grant's forces, who were admirable for their per- sistenc}^ and successful because of the united force of the best war material, the highest style of intelligence, the best dis- ciplined soldiers, and commanded by generals in perfect unity with their great chief. This element of greatness belonged to 21 Napoleon, to Frederick the Great, to Caesar, to Hannibal, to Scipio Africanns, to Fabius, to Marcellus, to Alexandei tlie Great, and finally to all great leaders ,of eminence. Perhaps no example of such ability to hold and continuously employ in one di- rection and upon one subject, for so long a time, and in so great a fulness of de- tail, has occurred, or will again appear within a century. The great battles of the nineteenth century have been those of Napoleon and the allied powers in Europe, until those of the " Great Kebellion." The former were single-day battles, the latter were often serial — lasting fi'om three to eight days, night and day, fi'om the Eapidan to the South Anna. Napoleon at Austerlitz, "Wagram, Lo- bau, and Waterloo, calculated for one day only. So with his foes. But Grant calculated for any length of time. So also with Lee. But Lee's resour- 22 ces were limited, and lie must piece out his legions witli economy and with im- pregnable earthworks. But Grant was prepared to meet economy with either economy or prodigality, with fortifica- tions or open-field fighting, with strategy or heavy metal, as the exigencies of the campaign required. His wary and cougar-like antagonist found " Uli General" ever ready for battle, or for motion, but never for retreat. No commander that has met Grant on the fieM can say that he has beaten a retreat. He ever held his forces in hand, after the shock of battle, thinning a division down to a brigade, or a brigade to a regi- ment, or a regiment to a company. Tv^iat he had left were always in hand, not for retreat, but for advance and victory. Nor is there any perceptible difi'erence between his first regiment of Illinois volunteers, and his trio of armies against Bragg at Chattanooga, or in handhng the vast army in the final breaking up of 23 the Confederacy ; with the divisions un- der Thomas in the "West, Sherman across the country, and Grant and Butler around Eichmond. All these vast and complex movements were in progress at the same time, and were each only as parts of the great whole, and ever required unity of plan, and concert of action, as the several dis- tinct campaigns evolved their long trains of marches, battles, victories, and sur- renders. It will need a succeeding age to analyze and appreciate the work of this great commander. Grant was happy in his selection of subordinate commanders. The power of Our General in reading men, was only second to his ability of drawing them into the friendly meshes of personal devotion. This characteris- tic is indispensable for the success of all great commanders. Grant's forte was 24 adaptation. No weakness in himself was so fixed as to cause liim to overlook the weaknesses of others, and thus to choose weak favorites for high purposes and positions. Instead of this, he se- lected the ablest men, after having tried them under his own eye. He did not send to distant departments for cele- brated officers as his subordinate com- manders, but found them close at hand, and as he needed them ; making what he had in hand always available, and causing successful abihties everywhere to rise to their well-earned rank. Some of his generals came up wdth meteor-like coruscations, from compara- tive obscurity, to exalted positions, but did not reach the zenith of glory. Others, having reached this zenith, by a slower process, became resplendent with glory ; and although the war-cry has given way to the reign of peace, yet in both cases, to this hour, their lustre has not become dim. 25 When W. T. Sherman made liis fa- mous, yet unsuccessful attack on Yicks- burg, losing vast numbers of men, as well as prestige, Grant, true to his better judgment, stood up boldly in behalf of a noble, talented, and deserving general ; thus saving a genius to the arms of our country, a future coadjutor in quelling the rebellion, and almost a rival to him- self in the public esteem. Political circles, as well as the press, were opposed to the Spirit of Sherman- ism, until that great genius hurled his legions upon Johnson's division, and drove him back upon his stronghold at Atlanta, and earned again the laurels awarded by Grant, and which should have been awarded by the people, at his unsuccessful attack on Yicksburg. Sherman evidently is a life-long friend of Grant, and owes as much to Our Gen- eral for the oppoHunity to become great, as to his own kindly stars, in his original and cultivated powers. 26 Almost as miicli is true of General Meacle. There was a time when Meade had nearly saved his country, when the smoke of battle hung festooned around Gettysburg. But as this war-cloud cleared away, political generals, and would-be military critics, snuffed the aii', and foretold dire calamities from the incapacities of the hero of Gettysburg, and forgot the glory of that great field. But Grant knew the qualities of a great soldier without the aid of the kid-gloved gentry at the National Capitol, and he determined to continue Meade in com- mand of the Army of the Potomac, not- withstanding he had once been com- pelled, by the wary and powerful Lee, to recross the Bapidan. He knew, bet- ter than any other man, what Meade had done in that fearful moment, when the legions of the Confederacy were hurled upon the Union troops by the concen- trated fury of rebel talent and passion, in that last terrible and bloody onset of Lee. 27 It was known in advance, all over the South, that Lee was going North, and that he was to make the most gigantic efforts to break through every barrier; and it is said that the best families of the South equipped and sent their choicest troops for the expedition : and when Lee withdrew from the contest, slowly and sullenly southward, he left some of the finest young men of all that country beneath the rich mould of Penn- sylvania, and slowly wheeled the torn bodies of others homeward on mourn- fully attended ambulance-trains ; and the wealthy abodes of that sunny land were \dsited by that mother-spirit of " Eama," refusing comfort in the homes of re- bellion. When, therefore. Grant took his posi- tion in the East, as Lieutenant- General, Meade was kept in his position, and it proved the ability of his chief, in reading the military status of his own subordi- nates, as well as that of the enemy. To 28 tlie last General Meade proved himself to be aU that his great leader could de- sire, both in the wise councils of war and in the earnest strife of the battle- field. The question may here arise, why was not Grant, like other generals, over- whelmed and ill-treated by his jealous under-servants and professed coadju- tors? Many a one had been crushed fi'om causes outside of himself, and re- moved from his command, which was the only place of self-vindication. Pope was beaten, not by Jackson, nor by Longstreet, nor by Lee, nor by aU these combmed; he was overthrown by forty thousand men under Fitz John Porter and McClellan, who lay quietly between Fairfax Coui't House and their late land- ing-place, while those two beautiful spe- cimens of jealousy were quietly lookmg on, and inwardly laughing to see Lee do his work of death and ruin. For at South Mountain and Antietam, that 29 body of men did what tliey could and would liave done under General Pope at Centreville, liad they had opportunity, and no more. The men under Grant, understanding the nobility of their chief, stayed by him till they could win glory enough for all. They valued social, more than separate glory. Grant also, in his reports, labored to do every man justice, without extreme laudation, disparagement, or undue re- flections. A remarkable example of this is seen in his treatment of General Granger, at Chattanooga, when he ordered him to the aid of Burnside, in Tennessee. He utters no invective— he uses no crushing expletives— he manifests no over-towering passion — but he hastens to give the order quietly to Sherman, though he needed him for work nearer himself. How quickly Sherman was moving 30 Tennessee-ward, and liow soon was the work completed, and his army return- ing to join their chief at Chattanooga, who were preparing for an invasion of Georgia ! Each man, when ordered by Grant to any post, or commended to the govern- ment for any important trust, seemed at once inspired for his new field of action, as if one with the chief in command. At first the public were not ready to adopt the selections of Grant. But when these selections had been tested, confi- dence everywhere followed the choice of Our General. Then it was understood, that a man of ability was made, when it was known that he had been chosen by this great leader. While the army under his command were harnessed with his orders and plans, they had at the same time sufficient free- dom for the development of personal and independent activities. ■\\^iile there was unity observable to the nation, there was 31 sufficient variety to sliow tlie style and quality of each man's work. Personal identity in his commanders \vas as evi- dent to every true American, as were their sympathy and co-operation. Greatness, therefore, did not break forth upon the country, as in the efful- gence of the sun's noon-tide radiance, but as from dawn to sunrise, then to quarter-day brightness, and finally, to zenith glory, as by the regular increase of natural laws. Some men win favor by public display, and lose all this prestige when these em- blems of dignity are laid aside. But another class never shine outwardly at the expense of the heart and the brain. "With these, buttons and lace are cheap commodities, while sturdy qualities are of priceless value. Glittering reviews and gala-day cheering are at a discount when there is work on hand. Campaigning, hard marches, and hard- er fighting, stand far up in their plans of 32 future greatness ; while display and re- creation lie far back in the alphabet of their purposes. Gbant is known for remarkable ce- lerity OP MOVEMENT. Executive dispatch is a prime quality in a military chieftain. With Grant, " Time was money" — it was advantage — it was success and victory. A resolution for a proper movement, was the movement itself. Personal com- forts, visitors, military honors, must all bow to duties and obligations. Grant's most intimate companion was the saddle. The tent, the map, the field-glass, were his main outfit. He was scarcely on the ground of a new field before his troops and supplies were in motion, and he, like a spirit, was flying from point to point, measuring every movement. The object of his department was war, the measure of time was the earliest moment. 33 In all great movements tlie generals set their watches by his ; and his ene- mies were compelled to do the same or be too late. Nothing but the elements or the providence of God were to thwart his purposes. He seemed to combine the caution of Eabius, the tenacity of Harcellus, with the capacity of Pom- pey= He appeared always to know where his army was, what and how much they would do, when the work would be ac- complished, and what the result of the enterprise. His dashes were like the coming down of the avalanche — his sieges like the fearful approaches of the prairie's conflagration— his campaigns as the rising and onward moving of the spriug flood— his battles like the raging of the thunder-storm— and his victories as the gathering in of a rich harvest from many a fruitful valley. There is another attribute in the char- acter of Our General which must ever 34 appear in tlie cliaracter of all great com- mantlers — self possession. In Grant this quality seemed to have reached its high- est point. "When Beauregard had forced the army under Grant to fall back on the river, at the battle of Pittsburg Landing, before his support under General Buell could reach him, his face wore the same ex- pression, and he directed his movements with as much coolness as if he had been the attacking party, and the day one of victory. On the next da}-, when his forces were augmented by thousands, he manifested no surprise or joy, and no elation of spirits. This coolness seemed to say, that in no event could final vic- tory be snatched from him. This same coolness seemed also to be infused into all his generals, which made them examples of complete composure, when the most stupendous results hung upon the work of an hour. It is said that no one could so read Grant's coun- 35 tenance as to tell by its expression liow a battle was going. Wliatever the exigenc}^, he came to his decision in an instant, and that in- stant of decision was a moment of prac- tical issues ; and his plans and intentions were his own nntil the moment of issued orders. One thing his enemy might ever know in regard to his intentions — it was to fight. As to which was to be the attack- ing party depended upon the celerity of the preparations, and who was ready to strike the first blow. At Chattanooga, his battle orders were supposed to be a review. His lines of battle were the first warning of his inten- tion to fight. Bragg expected to gaze, from his perch on Lookout Mountain, upon a grand re- view of Pederal troops, and while he was thus gazing, found himself in the midst of a battle, and pursued by an unex- pected defeat. 36 When the entire North were expecting every hour to hear that Grant had re- crossed the Eapidan, he was making the best time possible for Spottsylvania Court House, and Lee, with all his ef- forts, was laboring to anticipate him in the race. When it was thought that Brecken- ridge would attack Washington, Lee and all his advisers supposed that Grant would raise the siege of Richmond and pursue him up the Shenandoah valley. But Grant sent Little Phil. Sheridan to watch the Shenandoah, and the " Old Sixth" to take care of Breckenridge, while he kept his own eye on Lee and Eichmond. All this may be attributed to his self- possession, which enabled him to make his foe dance to whatever time he might choose. Whoever has this perfect self-posses- sion, will either inspire the same in others, or they are at his mercy. THE GREAT AMERICAN SCOUT AND SPY ROYAL OCTAVO. ^Vitli Twelve Fine DKngfravinyrs. e.(^iyiiytiND)ATQJlY^ E^TE^^^CTS, " He has shown as much addvess ms daring."— Maj. Gen. Force. " Many scpncs of his life as a spy are intensely interesting." Maj. Gen. Leggktt. " In discharge of his duties he was active, energetic and heroically brave."— Brig. Gen. Ross. "I have always found him brave, adventurous and truthful." Mai. Gen. McPhersok. " He was regarded one of the most intrepid scouts in the army." Bvt. Brig. Gen. Wiles. "I regard this book as the most readable, thrilhng and truthful that has ever been published touching the courage and prowess of the American soldier."— Bvt. Maj. Gen. Potts. " He was not only a good scout, but one of the best sharp-shooters perhaps in the army."— Maj. Gen. Logas. " You are at liberty to refer to me concerning the value of the ser- vices rendered by Mr. Iluggles as a scout and spy. An independent company of such men would be worth more than a regiment of cavalry." U. S. Grant, General. » I take great pleasure in pronouncing your book one of the best and most interesting of the day." G. W. Peabody, Prof, of Languages, Baltimore, Md. " The testimony of the well known officers which preface the book, attests the rehabihty of the story."-J. D. Cox, Governor of Ohio. LIBKHKY Oh CUNUKtbb 013 788 053 2