. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. manded districts in the South until 1869, andthereafter the District of the Pacific. He died at San Fran-cisco, on the 28th of March, 1870. General Thomas was noted for his steadfast equanimityand deliberate slowness. Even the patience of Grant wasexhausted before Thomas issued from Nashville to demolishHoods army. But the surenessof his movements, when oncedecided upon, warranted his sobriquet of Old Reliable,though he more often received from his soldiers the fondappellation, Pop Thomas. Slowly the country he
. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. manded districts in the South until 1869, andthereafter the District of the Pacific. He died at San Fran-cisco, on the 28th of March, 1870. General Thomas was noted for his steadfast equanimityand deliberate slowness. Even the patience of Grant wasexhausted before Thomas issued from Nashville to demolishHoods army. But the surenessof his movements, when oncedecided upon, warranted his sobriquet of Old Reliable,though he more often received from his soldiers the fondappellation, Pop Thomas. Slowly the country he hadserved and helped to save came to appreciate his full merits ;yet in 1868, when the rank of lieutenant-general was tenderedto him, it was somewhat proudly declined, on the ground thatit came too late for victories in the war. His sturdy inde-pendence led him to decline also gifts of houses, lands andpersonal property from private persons for public younger men were awarded high rank and popularfavor, the self-reliant hero bravely said, History will do 1C-
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