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U.S. Grant Lacking in Leadership When Seen Off the Battle Field
By United Press International
By United Press International This man Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who stood in the teeth of the winds of history in March 1864, who was he? What had he done to warrant command of all the Union armies?
Certainly as a soldier he was unprepossessing. Five feet, eight inches tall, he was stoop-shouldered, except in the saddle. He wore whiskers, as did nearly every other man in the Civil War—general or private. His were reddish-brown, often called sandy, cut short, probably unevenly, as was his hair of the same color.
HE SET NO example for his men in dress. He seldom wore the double-breasted uniform coat of a general with its two rows of brass buttons. If he did it hardly ever was buttoned. He preferred a short private's jacket with only the three stars on his shoulder straps indicating rank. He owned sashes and swords, but seldom was seen with either.
When he became lieutenant general, Grant lacked a month and a half of being 42 years old. That was about middle-aged for generals in the Civil War, neither old nor young.
He generally wore a black military hat, size $7\frac{1}{4}$ set straight on the top of his head. He usually had his left hand in his pants pocket. Often as not his right hand grasped his coat lacel if he was talking to some one.
His carelessness in military dress probably dated from the Mexican War when he served under Gen. Zachary Taylor whose unmilitary attire became a part of history.
Contemporaries described the new lieutenant general as having a well-formed head, a high forehead creased horizontally, piercing blue-gray
eyes, somewhat shrunken, a mouth and a stubborn chin.
GRANT WAS A soldier by his father's choice, not his own. He dreaded West Point and was unhappy most of his four years there. He was graduated in 1843, an undistinguished scholar, 21st in a class of 39. His best subjects were mathematics and horsemanship. He was the best rider at the point then or for years to come.
He won two brevets in the Mexican War and returned to garrison duty until 1854 when he resigned, presumably because he drank too much whiskey.
From then until Civil War days he was a failure as a farmer, clerk and real estate salesman. He was a clerk in his brother's leather goods store in Galena, Ill., when the war started. There, it seemed, he would spend the rest of his days.
It was several months after Fort Sumter before he could get a command, although other resigned officers got them for the asking. Finally he became a colonel of a fractious Illinois regiment.
FROM THEN ON he was a failure no more. But he had his bad campaigns with the good.
After several tries he captured Vicksburg and there showed a brilliance for maneuvering still admired by military men. He retrieved the Union defeat at Chickamauga by winning Missionary Ridge.
he captured Fort Donelson in February 1862 and his first Confederate army. He came within one of his sandy whiskers of losing the battle of Shiloh.
But all these victories, spectacular as some of them were, came against second-string Confederate Generals—Floyd, Pillow and Buckner at Donelson, Beauregard at Shiloh.
Beckwith to Get New Trial
JACKSON, Miss. —(UPI)—Circuit Judge Leon Hendrick was scheduled today to set the date for a new trial for Byron De La Beckwith, a segregationist charged with the ambush slaying of Negro civi rights leader Medgar Evers.
Attorney for both sides said they will ask for an early second trial at a hearing by Hendrick today.
Beckwith, 42, has been in jail since FBI agents arrested him last June 22.
HIS FIRST TRIAL ENDED in a hung jury on Feb. 7. Hendrick declared a mistrial when the 12-man, all-white jury reported it was hopelessly deadlocked after 11 hours of deliberation.
News of a hung jury, after a drama-packed trial of nearly two weeks, surprised both Negro and
Three KU Students Receive Fellowships
University Daily Kansan
Three KU graduate students have been awarded National Science Foundation Cooperative Graduate Fellowships for 1964-65.
David G. Lash, Lawrence, Ted J. Suffridge, Lawrence, and Charles R. Combrink, Caddo, Okla., will receive a stipend, an allowance for dependents and fee payment. Combrink will receive a research allowance of $500.
John R. Hedstron, Kansas City, has received a National Science Foundation Summer Fellowship for Graduate Teaching Assistants for 1964.
white leaders.
remberton at Vicksburg and Bragg at Missionary Ridge. He had met only one first rate Confederate general, Joseph E. Johnston, in the Vicksburg campaign and Johnston did not offer battle.
The defendant, an outspoken crusader against integration, told his attorneys. "I was not discouraged. Now let's get a new trial as soon as we can."
Much of the state's case during the first trial centered around a high-powered rifle found near the scene where Evers, state field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was shot down in the driveway of his home after returning from a civil rights rally June 12.
THE RIFLE WAS FOUND in a nearby honey suckle thicket and expert testimony was presented by the state in an effort to prove the weapon bore Beckwith's fingerprint.
THAT WAS HIS military record when he became lieutenant general. It was a better record than any other Union general had. He had learned his soldiering the hard way, from colonel up.
But several defense witnesses swore they saw Beckwith, at Greenwood, Miss., near the hour of the shooting.
The first trial included long testimony from Beckwith, who swore to the jury that he was not Evers assassin.
Handed the alleged murder weapon as he sat on the witness stand, Beckwith examined the rifle and said it resembled one he had owned and which was stolen from him a few hours before Evers was killed.
- AIN'T GONNA TELL NOBODY
JIMMY GILMER and the FIREBALLS
He was no follower of Napoleon's tactics, as were so many Civil War generals. He admitted he had never read any texts on strategy or tactics beving the usual manuals.
For a physician on his staff he once summed up his philosophy of fighting like this:
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That was Grant's job now—hit the enemy hard and often on all fronts and keep on until the superior manpower and industrial muscles of the North crush the Confederacy. No other kind of warfare would win. For it was obvious that crippled as the South was at the start of 1864 there was plenty of fight left.
6:15 a.m. at the Campanile
ALONG WITH HIS new job Grant had a new foe to fight- Gen. Robert E. Lee. They were about as unlike as two men could be.
Both were West Pointers and both were first class fighters. There the parallels ended.
Yale Chorus Returns
The Yale Russian Chorus will perform at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow evening in Hoch Auditorium.
This is the group's second appearance at KU. They performed here last spring.
THE CHORAL GROUP is composed of about thirty Yale students and faculty members. Dennis Mickiewicz founded the chorus in 1954.
The chorus has sung and traveled in several foreign countries. It has
traveled to Russia where the chorus has sung in places such as Red Square in Moscow singing and speaking to the people in their language. Other places where the chorus has visited are: Lille, France, where it won first place in the "Festival de Chant Choral;" the Salle Plevel, Paris; a memorial concert for Dag Hammarkjold in Geneva; Zurich; Copenhagen; Stockholm; and the Communist-sponsored Helsinki Youth Festival in Helsinki, Finland.
PETITIONS
Available at the
To fill one seat in the Large Women's Dorm District of the ASC.
Dean of Students office
Deadline: March 25, 5:00
Information: Dick King VI3-0651
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