From tannery to the White House : The life of Ulysses SGrant, his boyhood, youth, manhood, public and private life and services . oraise the siege there, driving him, at all points ut-terly routed and discomfited, beyond the limits ofthe State. ^*By your noble heroism and determined courage,you have most effectually defeated the plans of theenemy for regaining possession of the States ofKentucky and Tennessee. You have secured posi-rioKj from which no rebellious power can drive ordislodge you. For all this the General commandingthanks you collectively and individually. The loyalpeople of the U
From tannery to the White House : The life of Ulysses SGrant, his boyhood, youth, manhood, public and private life and services . oraise the siege there, driving him, at all points ut-terly routed and discomfited, beyond the limits ofthe State. ^*By your noble heroism and determined courage,you have most effectually defeated the plans of theenemy for regaining possession of the States ofKentucky and Tennessee. You have secured posi-rioKj from which no rebellious power can drive ordislodge you. For all this the General commandingthanks you collectively and individually. The loyalpeople of the United States thank and bless hopes and prayers against this unholy rebell-ion are with you daily; their faith in you will notoe in vain; their hopes will not be blasted; their GREATER THINGS YET 257 prayers to Almighty God will be answered. Youwill yet go to other fields of strife; and with theinvincible bravery, and unflinching loyalty to justiceand right, which have characterized you in the past,you will prove that no enemy can withstand you, andthat no defenses, however formidable, can checkyour onward march,**.
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