Life and services of Gen. John A. Logan, as soldier and statesman

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Introduction

WRITTEN BY THE HAND OF MRS. JOHN A. LOGAN.

Calumet Place, Washington, D. C, January 19, 1887.

In addition to his other qualifications for such a " labor of love," as he has well termed it, the fact that Mr. George Francis Dawson, of this city, has been the friend and associate of my lamented husband for many years, and was selected by General Logan as his biographer, has given him peculiar advantages, of which he has admirablv availed himself, in writing a just, faithful, and vivid life of General Logan.

The larger part of this biography was written by Mr. Dawson over two years ago, from data furnished by General Logan, who afterward read and gave to the work, substantially in its present shape, his unqualified indorsement ; and more than once, before his death, expressed the wish that Mr. Dawson's biography of him should go to the public with the stamp of his own authorization and approbation.

Having read the additions which complete the history of his incomparable services and spotless life, I unhesitatingly give my approval to this publication.

Mary S. Logan.

TO

THE MEMORY OF

JOHN ALEXANDER LOGAN

THE

EVER-VICTORIOUS WARRIOR AND ILLUSTRIOUS STATESMAN

THIS

BRIEF, AND ALL TOO INADEQUATE RECORD

OF

HIS GREAT SERVICES DURING FORTY YEARS IN WAR, AND IN PEACE

TO

HIS COUNTRY AND ITS PEOPLE

REVERENTLr DEDICATED

BY

THE AUTHOR

Preface

The enthusiasm kindled in the Chicago Convention of June, 1884, by the presentation of his name as the candidate of Illinois for the Presidential nomination, and the extraordinarily unanimous vote by which he was nominated for the Vice-Presidency, showed plainly enough the estimation in which General Logan was held by Republican men of affairs. But despite his admitted popularity and strength throughout the country — among the workingmen for whose interests he had so sturdily worked, among the Union soldiers of the war whom he had so often led in battle, among the colored people whose champion he had been on the tented field, in the Congressional forum, and upon the stump — his life-work covered so many fields, during more than a quarter of a century, that much of it is unknown to the younger men of the present day. I have therefore thought that a biographical sketch of this remarkable man would meet a public necessity, and help to place the General in military and political history in that true light which his own modesty denied him. In preparing this work I enjoyed all the advantages which full access to the General's scrapbooks, private papers, and military order-books could give me, in addition to the Rebellion Records and other official information accessible at Washington, and also freely consulted, and in some instances quoted from, the military works of the Comte de Paris, General Sherman's Memoirs, and Badeau's " Military History of Grant," besides securing authentic narrations of battle-scenes in which the General was engaged, from other active participants in the same. It is to these sources of information, therefore, and not to any qualities of my own, that I attribute whatever of dash x ii PREFACE.

and merit there is in the succession of graphic and stirring battle-scenes, in which Logan is the hero, herewith presented to the reader. But as to the General himself, rarely a word could be got descriptive of anything in which he was an actor. Partly with a view to establishing the authenticity of certain incidents in the military part — like the story of the battle-born Shell-Anna, for instance — I submitted them to the General, and all that could be extorted from him was, "Well, that is true." Hence, I may conscientiously say that this work, whatever its merits or demerits otherwise, is authentic, and as such will be of value for reference. Aside from this, I can also say with truth, that while the military part of it is, as it were, a panorama of the great War of the Rebellion — or of that large part of it in the West, Southwest, and South in which General Logan prominently figured — so the political part of it, before, during, and since the war, is a panorama of the Nation's political life during the past quarter-century. General Logan was so active on the stump and in the halls of National legislation, and his tongue so eloquent and impressive, that the extracts given herein from some of his many great speeches are a succession of word-pictures luminously suggestive of all that has occurred during that period involving the National existence and growth. They cannot fail to be instructive, entertaining, and delightful to the reader, as they have been fascinating to myself. Whatever of labor was involved in this work has been a labor of love — of love for the man, for the soldier, for the statesman, for that great Party of Progress of which he was so eminent a leader, and especially of love for those grand Anglo-Saxon principles of freedom of speech and person, liberty of action, and self-government upon which our great Republic, through the wisdom of that party and the heroism of our Union soldiers, now securely rests. In offering it to the public, my only regret is that it falls far short of doing full justice to the invincible soldier and illustrious citizen of whom it treats.

Geo. Frs. Dawson.

Washington, D. C, January 19, 1887.

PART I.— LOGAN BEFORE THE WAR. Prelude i

Logan's parentage, birth, boyhood, early surroundings, and education 2

Marked characteristics of his parents — His father's wonderful courage 3

Logan's youth — Those slow-coach days — The squirrel's story 4

A born leader — A daring feat — Story of the flat-boat — Goes to college — War with Mexico — He volunteers 6

Return from Mexico — His first public office — Reads law — Graduates from Louisville University — Practising law — In the State Legislature 8

Elected District Attorney — His uniform success — Incident of his skill in defence — His marriage — Again in Legislature 9

In Congress — At the Charleston Convention — The slave-pens of the South — His efforts to avert war 10

Lovejoy threatened with violence in the House — Free-speech in peril — Logan cows the fire-eaters and secures Lovejoy a hearing 12

The baseless charge that Logan was a "Secession sympathizer" — The war breaks out — Logan leaves the House, shoulders a musket, and fights at Bull Run 13

Part Ii.— Logan In The War

General McCook describes Logan at Bull Run — Logan's return to Washington and ' ' Egypt " — The sacrifices he made — Magical effect of his words on a mob — He turns secessionists into Union soldiers-Southern Illinois saved to the Union IS

Battle of Belmont -Characteristic incident—Colonel Logan's bravery and "admirable tactics" — His horse shot under him 19

Logan at Fort Henry — He is the first to enter it — His intrepidity and skill at Fort Donelson — Carried wounded from the field, having earned a Brigadier- Generalship — General Grant's recommendation 21

General Logan in command of a brigade — His services at Corinth— Sherman's appreciation of them 25

Logan solicited to return to Congress —

His grandly patriotic refusal: "I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this Government " — His only politics, " attachment for the Union " 26

Northern Mississippi Campaign — Logan leads the advance — Is made Major-General — At Memphis — Assigned to command of Third Division, Seventeenth Corps — Stirring address to his fellow-soldiers 28

From Memphis to Lake Providence— Canalling— A bold proposal— Logan's men " man " the transports that run the terrible fire of Vicksburg's guns 31

Logan at the victory of Port Gibson — His men determine the battle of the Big Black — Logan flanks the enemy and drives him again — Consequent evacuation of Grand Gulf—' ' The road to Vicksburg now open " 3 2

Battle of Raymond—" One of the hardest

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small battles of the war " — Logan's division wins it — The battle of Jackson . . 34

Logan outflanks the enemy at the battle of Champion Hills and secures victory to the Union arms — Retreat and rout of the enemy — " The most complete defeat of the Confederates since the commencement of the war " 35

Siege of Vicksburg — "The Gibraltar of the South " — Logan at the centre — Bombardment by land and water — The two desperately bloody assaults 40

The siege-works — Logan blows up the " Malakoff " of Vicksburg — The fight in the crater — Logan's close approaches — He advises a final assault — Armistice and surrender— Logan leads the triumphal entry — Made military governor of Vicksburg and receives a medal 44

A military interlude — Logan takes the stump for the Lincoln administration — Attacks the enemy in the rear — Eloquent appeals to patriotism to stand by " the cause " — The good they did 46

Logan in command of the Fifteenth Corps — He orders its corps-badge to be a cartridge-box and "forty rounds" — The advance on Atlanta — The stubborn battle of Resaca — Logan's victorious attack on the enemy's flank — His untiring vigilance 49

Battle of Dallas — Logan's corps brilliantly repulse repeated charges of Hardee's veteran corps — Logan's gallant bearing at a critical moment — He is again wounded 53

Battle of Big Kenesavv Mountain — The desperate assault upon the impregnable face of Little Kenesaw Mountain — Wonderful discipline of our soldiers — Unparalleled heroism of Logan and his men — Through Marietta and Decatur to Atlanta 55

The great battle of Atlanta — Death of the brave McPherson — The heroic Logan succeeds him — Taking command of a flanked army, with its idolized commander killed and panic impending, fighting in front and rear, Logan converts threatened disaster into a glorious victory — The bloodiest battle of the West — Logan's personal prowess — One of the finest battle-pictures of the war. . 58

Another flank movement of the Army of

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the Tennessee in a pitch-dark night — Logan all night in the saddle — His remarkable military skill 70

Howard's appointment to the command — Without a murmur Logan returns to his brave Fifteenth Corps — The desperate battle of Ezra Chapel — Logan's corps defeats the enemy's army — Six gallant charges repelled — The rebel army completely repulsed by Logan 71

Logan's corps still pressing the enemy — On the right again — Destruction of West Point Railroad — On to Jonesboro' 75

Touching incident of the Atlanta campaign — The fatherless battle-born babe " Shell -Anna " — The christening — Logan the godfather 76

Battle of Jonesboro' — Logan whips Lee's and Hardee's corps again — Consequent evacuation of Atlanta — Logan's patriotic address to his gallant corps 80

Another interlude — Logan on the stump again, defending the party of the Union . 86

Logan's rare magnanimity — He gives "Pap" Thomas his chance, at Nashville — Logan rejoins the Fifteenth Corps at Savannah 87

The campaign of the Carolinas — Its relative importance greater than " the march to the sea" — The part Logan's corps contributed to it 88

Terrible sufferings and difficulties of the march — Advancing and fighting with water up to the middle — Logan working with his men night and day in the swamps — Various skirmishes and engagements 89

Forcing the passage of the Little Salkahatchie and Congaree — Charging through mud and water — The surrender of Columbia — The city in flames — Logan's men stay the fire 91

Passage of Lynch's Creek Bottom and Black Creek — Logan's men " up to their armpits in water " drive the enemy — The terrible quicksands and swamps between Lumber River and Little Rock Fish Creek 92

Crossing the Cape Clear and South Rivers —The Battle of Bentonville or Mill Creek — Logan's successive gallant charges upon the enemy, driving him into his works — The enemy evacuates and retreats 93

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Striking incidents of Logan's humanity and justice 94

Fall of Richmond and Petersburg — Logan's advance on Smithfield — Johnston evacuates it — The advance on Raleigh — Johnston surrenders and the war ends — Logan organizes the Society of the Army of the Tennessee 95

Assassination of Lincoln — Thrilling instance of Logan's personal heroism — He saves the people of Raleigh from murder, arson, and " worse than death "... 96

Logan again in command of the Army of the Tennessee — On the march to Washington — The grand review — He musters out his 60,000 veterans and resigns — His affecting farewell address to the Army of the Tennessee 97

Resume of Logan's remarkable military career — A tribute to the American volunteer soldier — Logan the highest embodiment of the soldier who never forgot he was a citizen 100

PART III.— LOGAN AFTER THE WAR. Logan's personal appearance and some of his characteristics 104

Logan the statesman — The Cooper Union meeting at New York — He frustrates the attempted capture of our Union generals by the Democratic leaders . . . 105

He suggests the pressing of the Alabama claims, retirement of Maximilian, and honest payment of our national debt. . . 107

His great speech at Louisville, Ky. — On slavery, emancipation, and education — The war and its results — He beards the lion in his den 107

The political campaign of 1865 — Logan's campaign services — Appointed minister to Mexico, but declines 112

He declines appointment as minister to Japan — Nominated to Congress from the State at Large — His extraordinary canvass of Illinois in 1866 — Malignant vilification 114

His magnetic influence — Denunciation of Andrew Johnson's contemplated treason — Logan carries his State by 60,000 majority 115

Congressman Logan after the war — His great speech on reconstruction — Defence of the Republican policy — He riddles Andrew Johnson's policy — Penitence before forgiveness— A " renewed loyalty " the key-note of proper reconstruction 116

The reason why Democratic leaders hated Logan — How Logan saved to the Government nearly one million dollars 121

Logan elected commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic — Objects of that order — He institutes Memorial or Decoration Day 123

Passages from one of his Memorial Day orations — A thrilling war-picture 125

Impeachment of Andrew Johnson — Logan one of the House-managers — His great effort before the High Court of Impeachment — What Sumner and others said of it 128

Pensions for the War of 1812 — Logan advocates the bill, and explains the ground upon which pensions are granted 133

Logan declines to run for Governor of Illinois — "The centre of attraction" in the House — Again nominated Representative at Large — At the Chicago Convention, 1868, he nominates Grant for President 134

Logan's key-note speech in the House, 1868 — Scathing review of the "Principles of the Democratic Party" — Good reading for young men, even now 136

Logan in the campaign of 1868 — What was said of his efforts — His great speeches at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. , and Morris, 111 153

He is re-elected to Congress — The Jenckes "Tenure of office " or "Civil Service " bill— Logan attacks it and shows its dangers 159

His early stand against money-subsidies to railroads — The Eastern Division Pacific Railroad Bill — Logan calls a halt, and defeats the bill 161

The electoral count of 1869 — Turbulent scenes in joint convention — Ben. But-

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ler's attempt to bully Congress— Logan squelches him 165

Removal of the capital to the Mississippi Valley — A great speech — Logan's powerful appeal for the readmission of Virginia 166

He secures the branding of Whittemore by the House, for corruption — His appeal to the courage of the House 168

Logan's plea for struggling Cuba — He asks for belligerent rights 169

Logan's Army Reduction Bill— It effects a saving of millions annually — Its passage " the greatest triumph of that Congress " 17 2

His reply to General Sherman's letter opposing army reduction and reform — Logan demolishes it— Eloquent protest against military dictation, and defence of the liberties of the people 173

Logan the author of the Fifteenth Amendment, as agreed to 176

His eulogy on General Thomas— A fitting and eloquent tribute to the " Rock of Chickamauga " 178

Logan elected a third time commander-in-chief of the Grand Army— His last general orders touching Decoration Day —Grand Army resolutions — A handsome tribute to " the soldier's friend ". 181

How General Logan was at this time regarded in " Egypt " 183

Another big debate on Cuba — Logan's prominent part in it — He handles Ben.

Butler without gloves 184

Whittemore again attempts to get his seat — The House, under Logan's lead, excludes him, and returns his credentials. 186

Logan renominated by acclamation in 1870 — His great services on the stump in Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa — Sensation in Iowa wherever he appears — The Senatorship 188

Pen-portrait of General Logan— Analysis of his methods and manner in speech-making 19 1

Logan at Springfield — The records of the two parties contrasted — A passage of remarkable eloquence 194

Logan puts through the House a bill to abolish the offices of Admiral and Vice- Admiral of the navy — He is elected to the U. S. Senate 196

The great Chicago fire — Senator Logan's

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efforts for congressional relief — His vivid description of the catastrophe 198

Sumner's bitter attack on Grant — Logan's withering rejoinder — A noble defence of his old commander 200

Logan's stirring speech at El Paso — The differences between Democracy and Republicanism 203

Senator Logan secures the prohibition of the sale of arms to Indians, and defeats injurious legislation 206

General Logan's oration before the Army of the Tennessee at Toledo, O., 1873 .. 208

Logan on the stump in Indiana, 1874 — His " rousing " speech at Indianapolis 209

His remarkable oration at Clinton, 111. — Personal liberty traced to the fountain-head — Our own Government a compromise between such liberty and centralism 211

A legal incident in Logan's career — Among the silver-mines of Colorado. . . 217

Logan talked of for President in 1876.... 218

What the old soldiers thought of Logan's efforts in their behalf in Congress 218

Logan's tilt with Confederate brigadiers in 1876 — His defence of Sheridan and Grant — The White League " banditti "

— Democratic sympathizers in the Senate roughly handled — The old ship 219

Proposed transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War Department — Senator Logan eloquently opposes it, and pleads for Indian civilization and good faith 223

Logan's views on finance — Non-taxability of bonds and notes — Necessity for upholding the national credit 227

The footprints of parties on the avenues

of time— Words of living light 229

The difference between real and representative money and " fiat " money— A pertinent story 232

A coincidence — General Logan again elected to the U. S. Senate— Great rejoicings over it everywhere — A poem — His welcome to Carbondale— Grand welcome back to Washington — His great speech at the capital— His first act on returning to the Senate in behalf of the old soldiers 235

His great speech in 1879, on the Army Appropriation Bill— His brave words and solemn warning to the revolutionists. . . 243

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challenges him — General Logan treats his communications with contempt and tells his second to "go to hell " 253

Logan's domestic life at Washington — His wife and children 260

General Schenck attacked in the Senate — Logan promptly defends the old patriot 261

Logan's speech on the U. S. Marshals Appropriation Bill — The Democratic attempt at " Nullification and Anarchy " 263

On the stump again — The great demand for Logan — Characteristic incidents touching the old soldiers 268

Logan's canvass of Ohio in 1879 — At Dayton, Springfield, Van Wert, Bellefontaine, and elsewhere — Ovations everywhere 270

His campaign in Iowa — Ovation after ovation along the whole line from Waterloo to Burlington — Logan excels in a new role 273

His speech in 1879, on the reciprocal duties of the citizen to the Government and the Government to the citizen 277

Logan secures the Republican National Convention of 1880 for Chicago by a flank movement 278

His able legal argument in the Senate on the five-per-cent. claims of Illinois and other States 279

The Fitz John Porter case, 1880 — Logan's wonderful four-days' speech before a listening Senate and crowded galleries. . . 280

Death of Zach. Chandler — Logan's impressive account of his dead friend's last hours— Eulogy in the Senate 282

The Logan "boom" in 1880— Garfield moved to tears by his early and hearty support— Logan's wonderful personal campaign in 1880 — He strives to make peace between Conkling and Garfield 285

Logan's loyalty before the war — His triumphant speech of vindication in 1881 — Democratic and Republican Senators follow it with their personal testimony . 288

Grant's defence of Fitz John Porter — Logan shows it to be founded on a misapprehension of the real facts 292

Logan's speech on the bill to retire General Grant — He " rattles " the Confederate brigadiers again — A fine tribute to Grant's military genius 294

His speech in the Senate on arrearages of pensions — His defence of the wounded soldiers 296

Logan's bill devoting internal revenue receipts to education — A great, statesmanly, instructive speech 298

Fitz John Porter bill of 1884 — Logan again assails the obnoxious bill — He bids the Confederate brigadiers beware ! 305

Senator Logan assailed as a" land-grabber" — He proves the charge to be "maliciously false" — Even the Democratic Senators laugh the charge to scorn 307

Part Iv.— Logan On The Presidential Ticket

Genera! Logan again talked of for the Presidency — A train of Logan men reaches Chicago — Illinois decides to present his name to the Chicago Convention of 1884 309

His name presented as the candidate of Illinois— The enthusiasm with which it was received 311

The four ballots — How Logan secured the nomination of Blaine, and why he did it — His famous despatch 313

How Logan was nominated for the Vice- Presidency — On roll-call he gets 779 votes — The nomination by acclamation 317

How the news of Logan's nomination was received in Washington — an impromptu ovation — Logan's congratulations to Blaine — Blaine's reply — Blaine's ovation in Augusta — His happy reference to Logan 319

How the press and people throughout the country hailed the nomination of Logan 322

Republicans at Washington preparing to ratify — The Illinois Republican Association call and pay their respects 328

Logan in Maine — An ovation from Portland to Augusta — Grand reception in Augusta — His stirring speech at Mr.

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Blaine's speech at Bangor when presenting General Logan to its citizens — Logan's handsome tribute to James G.

Blaine 33 1

Resolutions of the State Republican Associations at the national capital — Logan's strength in Indiana, etc 333

Great ratification meeting at the national capital — Addresses of Sherman, Hawley, Frye, Harrison, Raum, Reed, Phelps, Fred. Douglass, Dingley, Miller, Milliken, Horr, Smalls, Pettibone, Goff, and others of note — Good things said of both Blaine and Logan 335

Grand serenade by the ex-soldiers and sailors to Logan at Washington — Address by General Green B. Raum — Logan's reply — Speeches of Senator Plumb and others — " Brains and pluck, or pluck and brains " 342

The Republican National Convention Committee call upon and officially notify Logan of his nomination — General Henderson's address — General Logan's response 347

The letter of acceptance — Protection — Our financial system — Interstate and foreign commerce — Foreign relations — Equal rights — Immigration — Civil Service, etc 349

General Logan's journey to Minneapolis — An enthusiastic ovation all the way from Pittsburg — Grand reception at Minneapolis — Meeting of the Grand Army — The greatest demonstration of the Northwest 359

Logan's reception elsewhere — His more than royal progress through the States — His exhausting campaign labors — Result of the election — How Logan bore it. 361

Part V.— Logan Since 1884

Logan's memorably gallant fight for the Illinois senatorship — Hopeless odds against him — He wins his third senatorial term — His address to the Legislature 363

Public interest in Logan's victory — Telegrams of congratulation, etc 366

Enthusiastic ovations from Springfield to Chicago — Logan's reception at Chicago. 368

Banquet to Logan by the Chicago Union League Club— His modest speech 370

Logan's Presidential "boom" for 1888, starting strongly 371

His return to Washington — Salute of 100 guns in honor of his election 372

Logan visits Grant's sick-chamber — Old war-memories revived 373

Enthusiastic reception of Logan at the G. A. R. Encampment, Portland, Me.— His telling speeches there 374

The Logan banquet in Boston — A characteristic incident — His vigorous speech on " Civil Service reform " and " offensive partisanship" — "Fair play" demanded 378

Fourth of July oration by Logan at Woodstock, Conn. ,1885 381

Logan on Grant — Address to the G. A. R.

in the M. E. Memorial Church, Washington — Eloquent review of that great chieftain's services 385

Banqueted by the " Logan Invincibles " at Baltimore — Logan's ' ' bloody-saddle " speech — Elkins gives Grant's high estimate of Logan 398

Logan declines the Presidency of the United States Senate— His popularity still extending 402

New Year's (1886) reception by Logan at his Washington residence — A descriptive poem 4°3

Logan dined by the Philadelphia " Clover

Club" 406

L He again attacks the (modified) Fitz John Porter bill in the Senate 4°7

Speech on admission of Dakota — Logan riddles the Democratic opposition— He unhorses Senator Butler 408

Logan's idea of "decorations" — He declares against secret sessions of the Senate 4°9

The great " Republican Club" banquet in Detroit — Logan's enthusiastic reception and stirring speech 4 10

His eloquent advice to the American negro — The possibilities of that race 412

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Logan's grand Memorial Day oration at the tomb of Grant, Riverside Park, New York. 1886 413

The Payne senatorial election case— Halstead's attack on Logan — His crushing rejoinder 427

Logan goes to the G. A. R. Encampment at San Francisco — He is bombarded with flowers — Is enthusiastically received everywhere on the Pacific coast — His speech to the Mormons 430

His return — Public receptions at St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Chicago 436

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His speech at the Soldiers' Reunion, Cairo, September 30, 1886— The true theory of pensions — Eloquent passages 438

Logan's last great out door public address, at Marion, October 4, 1886

" The issues of the day ''—The Democratic Party a failure— The Republican 'Party vindicated 44I

His last camp-fire speech, at Youngstown, O. , November 18, 1886 443

Logan's magazine work — Book-making — " The Great Conspiracy " 444

His Presidential star waxing rapidly 445

Part Vi.— Logan's Last Days And Death

Logan's return to Washington — His last drive — Attacked by rheumatism — His last appearance in the Senate — A siege of agony 447

His graphic stories — His estimate of Lincoln as a joker — Logan's gallop along the lines at Vicksburg — His unrecorded wound 449

His anecdotes about Hazen and others — Logan's ideas about military discipline — How Mrs. Logan " cut a man down." 454

Logan talks of Douglas and the war- About General Sherman 455

Getting worse — Bad nights — Reading Logan to sleep — His opinion of the memoirs of Lee 457

The passing away — Affecting scenes in the chamber of death 460

Calumet Place in mourning — The guard-mount — The question of final resting- P'ace 461

The Senate Committee of Arrangements and the pall-bearers— Taking the remains from Calumet Place — Logan lying in state under the great white dome 463

Letters of condolence from notable persons everywhere 465

The wonderful profusion of floral offerings — A mound of flowers 467

The obsequies in the Senate Chamber — The Rev. Dr. Newman's eloquent funeral panegyric on Logan 468

The funeral procession to Rock Creek church-yard — Services at the tomb — Sounding " taps " (lights out) 475

Poem on the " Death of Logan " 478

How the press and people of the land mourned the sad loss of Logan 482

Part Vii.— Addenda

Logan's influence upon our statute-book — The impress of his thought on all important national legislation enacted since the war

Secret of Logan's popularity with the farmer, the laborer, the soldier, the colored man , and the Irish voter 495

The charge that Logan "murdered the king's English" disposed of — His speeches " beds of pearls " — A random string of them 499

Logan's literary tastes and treasures — Extent of his classical and other knowledge — How he prepared his speeches. . 505 Why Sherman displaced him from command of the Army of the Tennessee after Logan's great victory of Atlanta — The Sherman-Logan correspondence — Sherman's oral and written statements since Logan's death — Hitherto unpublished letters of Sherman to Halleck and to Logan himself— Hooker's letter to Logan — The real reasons for Sherman's injustice 505

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Logan "thrice " refuses "the crown," in 1880 — His wonderful fortitude under a reverse — Frye's denial — Several bits of unwritten history 525

Logan's last Christmas-Eve souvenir — A poem 5 2 8

Logan's brave Scottish ancestry — Meaning of the name — Robert the Bruce's vow — Sir James Douglas and the Bruce's heart - Heroic charge against the Saracens in Spain — Valor of Sir