CONTENTS IV. HIS LIFEWORK APPOINTED 5 11 18 26 XIII. THE WILDERNESS AND SPOTTSYLVANIA XIV. FROM SPOTTSYLVANIA TO RICHMOND XV. IN WASHINGTON AMONG POLITICIANS. XVII. HIS SECOND ADMINISTRATION 85 95 104 ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT CHAPTER I OUR NATIONAL MILITARY HERO SINCE the end of the civil war in the United States, whoever has occasion to name the three most distinguished representatives of our national greatness is apt to name Washington, Lincoln, and Grant. General Grant is now our national military hero. Of Washington it has often been said that he was "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." When this eulogy was wholly just the nation had been engaged in no war on a grander scale than the war for independence. That war, in the numbers engaged, in the multitude and renown of its battles, in the territory over which its campaigns were extended, in its destruction of life and waste of property, in |