Identifier: livescampaignsof00odel (find matches)
Title: The lives and campaigns of Grant and Lee. A comparison and contrast of the deeds and characters of the two great leaders in the civil war
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Odel, Samuel W Howard, O. O. (Oliver Otis), 1830-1909 Newman, John Philip, Bp., 1826-1899
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870
Publisher: Chicago, Star publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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back tothe army from civil life and represented the humblest ; wasa special friend to volunteers. He gave all his strength, allhis acquirements, and all his magnificent ability to the defenseof the American Union ; and he succeeded. Doubtless bothGrant and Lee, behind all human thought and action, wereinstruments in the hand of the Almighty for the working outof the great problems of humanity, which, without them,or such instruments, could not have been solved. North and South, we are together again. The same flagwaves over us. Just now the whole country is in a fermentfrom financial troubles, but we must trust the same Almightypower to give us leaders who shall bring us out of the valleysof humiliation and sorrow, and plant us upon the hill-topsof prosperity. Let nobody be discouraged. Whateversacrifices may be necessary will be made by the followers ofGrant and Lee, and their countrymen, to prevent the illswhich ambition and greed have been introducing and im-bedding in our borders.
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BISHOP JOHN P. NEWMAN, D. D. PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF GENERAL GRANT BY BISHOP JOHN P. NEWMAN, D.D., LL. D., THE FRIEND AND PASTOR OF THE FAMOUS SOLDIER AND PRESIDENT. Through my long acquaintance with Grant I had oppor-tunities to judge of his moral character. After five years in camp and field he returned to his fire-side without a stain upon his character. Given to no excesshimself, he sternly rebuked it in others. He never tookthe name of his Creator in vain, and an impure story neverpolluted his lips. Gratitude was one of the noblest emotionsof his soul. His words were few, but pregnant with gratefulrecognition. When restored to the army as General, andretired on full pay, he was deeply touched, and, taking thewife of his youth by the hand, he read the telegram whichannounced the fact, while, more eloquent than words, tearsof gratitude to the nation moistened those cheeks neverblanched with fear. It is difficult to be victorious and not be proud. But readGrants orders; read the r

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