19 shattered, so narrowly did he escape death. At Fort Donelson he was severely wounded, and urged to leave the field by his surgeon. He ordered his wound attended to secretly, and then went to his duty, saying that he had fired twenty-two rounds after his hurt, and that he could fire as many more, now that his wound was dressed. He was promoted to the grade of BRIGADIER GENERAL, March 5th, 1862, for gallantry in action. After the brave and skillful seige of Corinth in May, he was urged to become again a candidate for Congress, but he refused, saying, “I have entered the field io die, if need be, for this Government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established.” Under General Grant, in Mississippi, he fought so nobly that November 29th, 1862, he was made a MAJOR GENERAL. He led the center of General McPherson’s command, at the seige of Vicksburg, and his column first entered the city after the surrender, July 4th, 1863. He was appointed Military Governor of the city, where a gold medal was presented him by the Seventh Army Corps. Later, after some eloquent Union speeches at the North, he was made Commander of the Fifteenth Army Corps, succeeding General Sherman, and then Commander of the Army of the Tennessee. At Resaca, at Dallas, at Little Kenesaw Mountain, and at the desperate battle of Peach Tree Creek, he showed himself the bravest of the brave. In the) latter battle, when General McPherson fell, General Logan at once took command, and deeply stirred at the death of hist leader, led the fight with such fury that eight thousand rebel dead were left on the field. He was in every battle of that historical campaign, from Mission Ridge to the fall of Atlanta, September 2nd. The soldiers under General Logan admired him for a bravery that made him stand at the front of his army, and not in the rear. With him they felt sure of victory. Nobody hated cowardice or treachery more than he. After the war he was offered the position of minister to Mexico, by President Johnson, but declined it. In 1866 he was nominated by the Republicans of Illinois to represent the State at large, and was elected to Congress by over sixty thousand majority. He was twice re-elected, and then held
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