. Grant and his campaigns: a military biography . ame chances. Of Sherman he says, speaking of the battle of PittsburgLanding: To his individual efforts I am indebted for thesuccess of that battle. His praises of Sheridan have beenrecorded in former pages. And these, be it remembered, are not the wholesale lauda-tions with which military reports are usually filled, but justjudgments, conscientiously expressed. We may say of himas did Tacitus of Agricola: Nee Agricola unquam per aliosgesta avidus intercepit; seu centurio, seu prafectus, incorruptumfacti testem habebat. An enemy to be dreaded, h
. Grant and his campaigns: a military biography . ame chances. Of Sherman he says, speaking of the battle of PittsburgLanding: To his individual efforts I am indebted for thesuccess of that battle. His praises of Sheridan have beenrecorded in former pages. And these, be it remembered, are not the wholesale lauda-tions with which military reports are usually filled, but justjudgments, conscientiously expressed. We may say of himas did Tacitus of Agricola: Nee Agricola unquam per aliosgesta avidus intercepit; seu centurio, seu prafectus, incorruptumfacti testem habebat. An enemy to be dreaded, he was always courteous, kind,and humane to a conquered foe. A patriot of large heart, he has done more than any otherman to save his country in its day of bitter peril. To say that he is the first soldier of the age, is but to ap-peal to the facts already narrated. Perhaps we accord ahigher praise when we declare, without flattery, that he is themost distinguished American of the regenerated Republic. Lethim be cherished and honored
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