New Ulm Weekly Review

Of the thousands of messages of condolence and sympathy sent to General Grant the past month from men of all classes, creeds and parties, in all sections of the country, few, we believe, have more touched our dying old hero than the resolution offered by William Preston Johnston the brilliant and worthy son of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, whose attack on Gen. Grant's forces on the 6th of April, 1862, was one of the greatest displays of skill and valor made during the whole war—at the reunion of the Louisiana division of the Confederate Army of the Tennessee. Col. Johnston's resolution is as follows: That the Association of the Army of the Tennessee hear with deep regret of the pain and peril now endured by Gen. U. S. Grant. Twenty-three years ago our soldiers met him on the field of battle and found him then, as ever, a soldier without fear and malignity. In his own suffering and the sorrow of his family we tender him and them our heartfelt sympathy and ask for them the comfort and peace which come from Him who is not only Lord of Hosts but Father of us all.