ime Grant and his men marched in-to the
cit-y; now this great gen-er-al showed what a kind heart he had, for he
gave food and clothes to the poor men who had fought so long and so
well, to save their town; and he tried hard, at this time, to think of
some way to bring the war to a close. Grant was not a hard man, but he
was a just one; and in his camps, the men must live the right sort of
lives; he would not let his men steal food from the farms a-bout them,
or rob the poor folks in their homes. He was a plain man, and his dress
showed his plain tastes; once, when he had his troops march past him,
that he might see how they looked, he wore such a plain garb that his
cap-tains were dressed bet-ter than he. He wore no sword, sash, nor
belt; just a plain, dark suit, with a soft felt hat on his head, and a
pair of kid gloves on his hands; he was a great smoker, and, it is said,
his big plans were all made when his ci-gar was in his mouth. In 1863,
Grant won a great fight at Chat-ta-noo-ga; and in the fierce fight in
the Wil-der-ness, he and Gen-er-al Lee met for the first time.

Grant's next great work was to seize Pe-ters-burg; and so he laid siege
to the town; he dug a huge mine in front of the doomed cit-y, and filled
it full of pow-der that would go off when fired with a match; when this
great charge went off, the fort was blown to small bits, and heaps of
dead and dy-ing men lay in the midst of the ru-in; but the brave men of
the South still held the fort, and drove back the troops from the North
as they rushed up; and so well did they fight that Grant and his men had
to draw back, and leave Pe-ters-burg a-lone for some time.

The next time he tried to take the town though, Gen-er-al Lee, who was
in charge, was forced to yield; and soon the red, white and blue waved
o-ver the South-ern cit-y. Soon af-ter this, Grant took from Lee all the
troops in his charge; and it was now plain to see that the war must
soon end.

You read in the life of Lin-coln, of the terms of peace which Grant gave
to the great chief of the South; and it seems that these two men, Grant
and Lee, had no hard thoughts for each other; for when peace was made,
they shook hands, and part-ed friends. Each had done his best in the
cause he thought right. Grant's trip to the North when the war was at
an end was a grand one; crowds rushed to see the man who had saved the
Union, and cheers and shouts rang to the skies. He was, of course, named
for pres-i-d