Identifier: lifecampaignsofl00head (find matches)
Title: The life and campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. U. S. Grant, from his boyhood to the surrender of Lee
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Headley, P. C. (Phineas Camp), 1819-1903
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Publisher: New York, The Derby and Miller publishing co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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s to such a degree that, with a mind well culti-vated and full of energy, great hopes might be entertainedof Ms usefulness to the nation. Soon after this period, in1855, having found that his congressional district wasentitled to a representative at the Military Academy, hedetermined to secure the appointment. The person whohad the power to grant this was the Hon. George Yail,Member of Congress from his district. This gentlemansterm in Congress was near expiring, and his friends andparty desired and intended to use great efforts for his re-election. The young subject of this memoir, with many others,was selected to make speeches throughout the district, andhe spoke in every town and hamlet, and finally attractedthe attention of his member of Congress, who, after theelection, which was carried, conferred on Kilpatrick themuch-coveted appointment. He entered the AcademyJune 20, 1856. The class numbered one hundred and four ; of these,fifty graduated, and he the fifteenth in that number.
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CADET KILPATRIOK WHEN THE WAR BEGAN. 473 He graduated at that important period when theSouth fired a hostile shot at the Stars and Stripes, longvenerated and loved by a free nation. Kilpatrick was sitting in his room when this newsreached the Point, creating the liveliest sensation. The in-fluence of this young man, ardent, patriotic, and eloquent,was of great benefit to the country ; inasmuch as by it arequest was made, on the part of thirty-seven of the classout of fifty, to be permitted to graduate at once, and takethe field. Kilpatrick and his friend and classmate, the latelamented Colonel Kingsbury, who afterward fell at Antie-tam, and Beaumont, a room-mate, drew up his petition,addressed to the President, and sent it to Washington.The request was granted and the class graduated. It wasa great day at West Point. The acquaintances of theyoung men were there, proud to see their success, andhappy too. The young graduate and the lady Alice, to whom hewas engaged, were standing togeth

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