. Grant and his campaigns: a military biography . e 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 Avith which military reports are usually filled, but justjudgments, conscientiously expressed. We may say of himas did Tacitus of Agricola: A^ec Agricola vnquam per aliosgesta avidus intercepit; seu centurio, sen prce/edus, incorruptumfacti testem hahehaf. An enemy to be dreaded, h
. Grant and his campaigns: a military biography . e 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 Avith which military reports are usually filled, but justjudgments, conscientiously expressed. We may say of himas did Tacitus of Agricola: A^ec Agricola vnquam per aliosgesta avidus intercepit; seu centurio, sen prce/edus, incorruptumfacti testem hahehaf. 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 ajvpeal to the facts already narrated. Perhaps we accord ahigher praise when we declare, without fiattery, that he is themost distinguished American of the regenerated Bepuhlic. Lethim be cherished and honored
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