Stonewall Jackson and John Hunt Morgan towered above Grant, both as men, and as military officers.
In your opinion. I feel the same about HUG, as do many others - including many Southerner's
Savannah, GA, The Morning News: The news of Gen. Grant’s death will be read with profound sorrow in this country and with deep regret throughout the civilized world. Gen. Grant was a great soldier. . . . His magnanimity at the Appomattox surrender showed that he was as generous as he was brave. --------------------
Mobile, AL, The Register: He is gone. The grave closes over a brave soldier, a man whose impulses, had they been properly directed, (I assume southward), would have made him the foremost man of his times. The South unites with the North in paying tribute to his memory. He saved the Union. For this triumph – and time has shown it to be a triumph for the South as well as the North – he is entitled to and will receive the grateful tribute of the millions who in the course of time will crowd this continent with a hundred Imperial Sates and spread to the world the blessing of republican freedom. --------------------
Richmond VA, The Dispatch: He is not only one of the immortals, but he is one of them by right. He was an Agamemnon – a “King of Men.” --------------------
Charleston SC, The News and Courier: The North had no thought save of the man of Appomattox and the South had no thought save of him who told the worn and ragged Confederate soldiers of Lee’s army that they must take their horses home with them, . . . . .There is peace throughout the land – peace in the North and peace in the South. The country is one again in heart, and thought and hope. . . . In this time of peace there is naught but regard and regret for him for whom strife and disquiet are no more. --------------------
Louisville KY, The Commercial: The greatest soldier since the day of Napoleon is dead. --------------------
New Orleans, The Picayune: Brethren of the North and South let us join mournful hands together around that newly opened grave . . .
New Orleans, The Chronicle: A united country mourns an honored son. His private virtues were equal to his patriotism and military genius. --------------------
Galveston, TX, The Evening Tribune: Those of the gray who had fought against him are earnest in their sorrow that a gallant soldier has gone to his long resting-place.