1 thank you, too, in the name of
the nobh army which I have the hon
or to command. Il is composed of
men whose loyality has been proved
by their deeds of heroism and their
willing sacrifices of life and health.—
They will rejoice with me that the
miserable adherants of the rebellion,
whom their bayonets have driven
from this fair land, are being replaced
by men who acknowledge human
lib rty as the only true foundation of
human government. May your ef
forts io restore your city to the cause
ol tho t nion'be assuccesesful as have
been theirs to reelaim it from the
d-.-potic rule of the leaders of the
rebellion. 1 have the honor to be,
gentlemen, your obedient serv’t.
U. S. GRANT, Major Central.
Grant's Farewell Andress to His Army.
The General order of General
Grant, addressed to tho soldiers of
the United States when the war was
over, will now be read with interest.
Here it is:
Soldiers of the Armies of the United
States— By your patriotic devotion to
your country in the hour of danger
ami alarm, your magnificent fighting,
bravery and endurance, you have
maintained tbo supremacy of the
Union and the Constitution, over
thrown all opposition to the enforce
ment of the laws and the proclama
tion forever abolishing slavery—the
< time and pn text of the rebe’lion—
and opened the way to tbe rightful
authorities to restore order an 1 in
augurate peace on a permanent anti
enduring basis on every foot of
A merican soil. Your marches, seig
es and battles, in distance, duration,
resolution and brilliancy of results,
dim the luster of the world’s past
i iil.taiy achievements, and will be
i In' partiot’s precedent in defense of
liberty and right in all time to come.
