The Forfar Directory and Year Book 1886 . f the campaign was the capture ofChan9;chow, a town on the Grand Canal, half-way between Soochow and Nankin. It hadbeen in possession of the Taepings for four years, and was held in the spring of 1864 by allthe forces which they could muster outside of Nankin. Its capture brought the opera-tions of the Ever Victorious Army to a conclusion, and three weeks later that force wasformally disbanded. In this short page it is impossible to give more than a brief sketch of hi s later life. Sufficeit to say that after having been Consul at Galatz, Governor of U
The Forfar Directory and Year Book 1886 . f the campaign was the capture ofChan9;chow, a town on the Grand Canal, half-way between Soochow and Nankin. It hadbeen in possession of the Taepings for four years, and was held in the spring of 1864 by allthe forces which they could muster outside of Nankin. Its capture brought the opera-tions of the Ever Victorious Army to a conclusion, and three weeks later that force wasformally disbanded. In this short page it is impossible to give more than a brief sketch of hi s later life. Sufficeit to say that after having been Consul at Galatz, Governor of Upper Egypt, PrivateSecretary to Lord Ripon, again back to China, on Engineers duty at Mauritius, then inBasutoland, again off to Palestine, and elsewhere, he was asked by the Government togo out to Khartoum. His marvellous defence of that place for twelve months and hisheroic death are all fresh in our minds. While at home he was much attached to his boysmission at Gravesend, where his name has become a household word. 26 » ef 2 J-i d S. GENERAL GRANT. IN the person of Gteneral Grant, who died on the 23rd July, 1885, after a period of mostpainml suffering borne with stoical fortitude and patience, the Republic of the UnitedStates loses the most conspicuous historical figure of the momentous era of the Civil united the claims of the successful commander in the field to those of the chiefmagistrate twice chosen by the voice of the nation to sit in the seat of GeorgeWashington. His campaigns had not the fascination of General Shermans famoustnarch or of Stonewall Jacksons Cromwellian achievements, nor was his genius as a com-inander displayed with the dignified and noble serenity, undisturbed in defeat as invictory, which marked the career of his great antagonist, Lee. But in energy, in resolu-tion, and in iron tenacity of purpose Grant was never sui-passed, and those qualities hebrought into exercise at more than one crisis when the Unionist cause was in dangerof moral en
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