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Mississippi State University Scholars Junction Pamphlets Ulysses S. Grant Library Collection 1885 In memoriam : Ulysses Simpson Grant General (retired) United States Army, died July 23, 1885 Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/usg-pamphlets Preferred Citation In memoriam : Ulysses Simpson Grant General (retired) United States Army, died July 23, 1885, E672 .M46 1897, Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, Mississippi State University Libraries This Pamphlet is brought to you for free and open access by the Ulysses S. Grant Library Collection at Scholars Junction. It has been accepted for inclusion in Pamphlets by an authorized administrator of Scholars Junction. For more information, please contact scholcomm@msstate.libanswers.com. Headquarters Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United ~tates, Jn Qllemoridm ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT General (retired) United States Army Drno, JULY 23, 1885, AT MT. McGREGOR, N. Y. Headquarters Military Order of the Loyal Leg·ion of the United $tates, CIRCULAR No. 15.} Series of 188 5. Whole No. 36. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Oct. 7, 1885. ULYSSES SfMPSON GRANT-Cadet U. S. Military Academy, July 1, 1839; Brevet Second Lieutenant 4th U. S. Infantry, July I, 1843; Second Lieutenant, September 30, 1845; First Lieutenant, September 16, 1847; Captain, August 5, 1853; resigned, honorably clischargecl, July 31, 1854. Brevetted First Lieutenant U. S. Army, September 8, 1 ~..J.7, "for gallant conduct in the battle of Molino del Rey. \iexico." Captain, September 13, 1847, "for gal-lant conduct at Chepultepec, Mexico." Colonel 21st lllinois Infantry, June 17, 1861; Brig1dier-General U.S. Volunteer,;, August 9, 1861, to rank from May 17, 1861; Major-C;t·neral U.S. Volunteers, Febru-ary 16, 1862; Major-General U.S. Army, July 4, 1863; Lieutenant-General, March 2, 1864; General, July 25, 1866; vacated commission, March 4, 1869, being inau-gurated Presi<lent of the United States. General U.S. Army, (retired,) March 3, r885. Elected in Commandery of Illinois, December 3, 1879. Insignia No. 2006. Transferred to Comman<lery of .New York, May 2. 1883. Commander Commandery of New York, May 7, 1884. Born, April 27, 1822, at Point Pleasant, Ohio. Died, July 23, 1885, at Mt. McGregor, New York. \VHEREAS, The closing of the earthly career of the foremost soldier and the first citizen of the American Republic is an epoch-line in the nation's history. that event renders eminently fitting a formal expression of the he:Ht-promptings of the united membership of the Acting Commantlery-in-Chief of the J\1ilitary Order of the Loya_l~---•-Legion of the Umted SLntes, with its clustered associ:1tions of the army and nayy, by means of which that great commander won hi:; triumphs, and compassed his chief life-work; therefore, Resolved, That, in the history of the United States during the past quarter of a century, we recognize as a central figure, in the field of arms, in the councils of state, and in the representative character of an ,\merican citizen at home and abroad, General Ulysses S. Grant: a soldier who led the armed forces of his government to final victory over the greatest rebellion which was ever subdued among men; a Chief Magistrate who, during eight eventful years, was at the head of the national administration of the country thus saved; a private citizen who received unparalleled honors from rulers and ruled, the world around; and we realize that by his brilliant record of high attainment the glories of the American name have received new lustre and wider recognition, and there has been given added cause for gratitude ancl rejoicing to every loyal citizen of the Great Republic. Resolved, That, beyond all the glory of his great achievements on the fiel<l of battle, we perceive a grander glory in his magnanimity in the hour of victory, in his wise and successful pursuit of peace by international arbitration, and in his patriotic and fraternal spirit, which at the last found its exhibition and its reflex in the loving words of mutual regard passing between him and those whom he had met in clea<lly conflict; and of which the culmination was seen in a re-united nation sorrowing over his lamented loss, in the sight of a sympathizing world. Resolved, That, among the millions who truly honoree! and who sincerely mourn him, none can tram,cend, in an appreciative recognition of his "ork ancl his worth, and in an intelligent sense of personal loss in his cieath, those who shared with him in the battlings and endurances of his multiplied conflicts, and in the joys and rewards of his abundant successes; hence it is as those who not only knew him and were dear to him, but who were, in a sense, one \Vith him in prosperity and in adversity, that che officers and members of this Commandery express their sense of exalted regard for his matchless memory, and of reverent and tender sympathy with those to whom he was united by the close:-.t ties of blood and of affection, and who in the truest sense are personally bereaved by his entering into rest. TIIOS. KILBY SMITH, Brevet Major-General U.S. V. GEORGE\\'. MINDIL, Brevet .Major-General U.S. V. CHAS. P. HERRING, Brevet Brigadier-General U. S. V. JOHN McGOWAN, Lieutenant-Commander U.S. N. CLARKE MERCHANT, Lieutenant-Commander late U.S. N. H. EARNEST GOODMAN, Colonel U.S. V. H. CLAY TRUMBULL, Chaplain U. S. V. C(J1n111ittt'e. By command of Official. Major-General WINFIELD S. HANCOCK, U. S. Army, Acting Commander-in- Cldef. JOHN P. NICHOLSON, Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel U. S. V., Ruorder. Recorder. 

In memoriam : Ulysses Simpson Grant General (retired) United States Army, died July 23, 1885

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