Excerpt from General Grant and His Campaigns
There are crises in the lives of nations when the task of deliverance from calamity or death seems to be committed to the wisdom or valor of one man. The annals of the race are clustered with illustrations of this truth. The history of our Republic affords many examples of such instrumentalities working for its highest good under the inspiration of God.
That great events reveal, if not create, great men, is a recognized truth as palpable as that sun-heat envelops the earth with animal life, and food for its sustenance, and clothes the sphere in beauty for the delight of its master, Man. The law of trade expressed by the relative words Supply and Demand, works potentially in the moral world. There would be no heroes, saints, or sages, were they not needed. In calmer periods of profound peace and general contentment, soldiers and statesmen seldom appear above the common plane of society; but when tempests arise, and political wisdom in council, or valiant deeds in the field, are demanded, competent statesmen and soldiers start into view almost as suddenly and marvelously as Minerva,
"Bursting full armed from the brain of Jove."
The late Civil War afforded a notable example of this truth in the career of the Soldier, the events of which are briefly recorded in this volume.
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