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ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT 105 Gen. Sherman, and the following year he was de tailed to escort the party that was making the pre liminary survey for the Southern Pacific railway. In 1873 he was appointed by Gen. Sheridan an aide-de-camp on his staff with the rank of lieuten ant-colonel, in which position he served eight years, accompanying Gen. Grant in 1879 in the oriental part of the journey round the world, resigning from the army in 1881. During Harrison s ad ministration Col. Grant was minister to Austria, and afterward police commissioner with Theodore Roosevelt, in New York, until January, 1898. He became colonel of the 14th New York infantry in the war with Spain, and in May, 1898, was ap pointed brigadier-general of Volunteers, serving for a year in Porto Rico. At the close of the war Gen. Grant commanded the military district of San Juan until April, 1899, when he was trans ferred to the Philippines, serving under Gens. Lawton and McArthur, and later with independent command. In February, 1901, he was appointed brigadier-general in the regular army, and on his return to the United States in the following year was given command of the department of Texas and later the department of the Lakes. After September, 1904, he was in command of the de partment of the East, with headquarters on Gov ernor s Island. He became major-general in 1906, and died in New York city April 12, 1912. His