. 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 . s,and upon the advice of Grant, the Government then pro-posed to dismiss and send home the bulk of its forces, bring-ing the army down almost to its peace footing. Therefore,the two great armies were directed to march to Washington,and there pass a grand review, preparatory to was joy and rejoicing everywhere, even among therebellious, that the great war was so happily ended. There was no danger, as some hinted, that the troopswould refu
. 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 . s,and upon the advice of Grant, the Government then pro-posed to dismiss and send home the bulk of its forces, bring-ing the army down almost to its peace footing. Therefore,the two great armies were directed to march to Washington,and there pass a grand review, preparatory to was joy and rejoicing everywhere, even among therebellious, that the great war was so happily ended. There was no danger, as some hinted, that the troopswould refuse to be disbanded, or if they were, that theywould break over the laws and plunder the people. Be- 560 THE LIVES AND CAMPAIGNS OF GRANT AND LEE. cause the armies were composed of the people, a volunteerarmy for the most part, whose members desired Union first,the safety of the Government and their homes second, andlastly, their own peace. Nor was there thought on the partof any one of making Grant a dictator, as some of the OldWorld essayists prophesied. For, after the mighty armiesof Meade, Sherman, Sheridan, and others had passed in. THE SURRENDER OF JOHNSTON. review before their loved Commander, after their flags haddipped in salute before him and the President of the UnitedStates, after the soldiers had greeted their favorites withcheers, they were dismissed, with honorable discharges intheir hands, which to them should prove in after years,among the patriotic, a sufficient warrant for love, admirationand gratitude; and the mighty host melted away. WITH LEE FELL THE CONFEDERACY. 561 European wiseacres awoke from fruitless dreaming,stopped their bitter prophesies, and began to realize that agovernment founded upon the rights of the people was,after all, the strongest, and could withstand a mightier warthan any one of the countries of the Old World could haveborne and lived. And the man who was most responsiblefor this state of affairs, was the silent Commander. He hadmet ev
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