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William Conant Church was born on August 11, 1836 in Rochester, New York, United States. He was the son of Pharcellus Church and Chara Emily (Conant) Church.
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Excerpt from Ulysses S. Grant and the Period of National Preservation and Reconstruction It is natural to seek as the hero Of each historic movement some man who, more than any other, represents the spirit Of his time. However Opinions may differ as to the relative merits in a strictly mili tary sense of the men Who led our troops to battle, few willdispute the fact that the chief representative Of the Union armies was Ulysses Simpson Grant. As was said by General Sherman, his principal competitor for the first place Each epoch creates its own agents, and General Grant more nearly than any other man impersonated the American character Of 1861 - 65. He will stand, therefore, as the typical hero of the great Civil War Of America Of the nine teenth century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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William Conant Church was born on August 11, 1836 in Rochester, New York, United States. He was the son of Pharcellus Church and Chara Emily (Conant) Church.
William was educated in the Boston Latin School.
At the age of nineteen, Church received editorial experience when he assisted his father to edit the New York Chronicle. After five years of this, he became publisher of the New York Sun but withdrew in 1861 for a European trip. Abroad at the outbreak of the Civil War, he returned in July and became a member of the joint military-naval expedition under General W. T. Sherman and Admiral S. F. Dupont, and was present at the capture of Port Royal. He was the first bearer to the North of the news of the victory and wrote the account of it for the New York Evening Post. Later he became a volunteer aide on the staff of General Silas Casey and was wounded in the battle of Williamsburg. He also took part in the battle of Fair Oaks.
During 1861-1862 he was Washington correspondent for the New York Times but gave this up when he was appointed inspector and mustering officer of provisional brigades with the rank of captain. He was rapidly promoted to major and lieutenant-colonel of volunteers. Resigning in order to start a military paper, together with his brother, Francis P. Church, he began the publication of the Army and Navy Journal in 1863. Soon after the draft riots broke out in New York, he joined the Civilian Committee which assisted in putting them down.
In 1866 the Galaxy Magazine was started by the two brothers. This publication lasted for twelve years and was then merged with the Atlantic Monthly. Henry James’s first stories appeared in it, also a novel by Charles Reade, and the early writings of Mark Twain. “The Claverings, ” by Anthony Trollope, began in the first number, May 1866.
Church had been a newspaper man for more than sixty years. His paper, which was largely the result of his military training and experience, supported an extreme military policy. Appointed literary executor of John Ericsson, he published his biography in two volumes (1890). He also wrote Ulysses S. Grant and the Period of National Preservation and Reconstruction (1897).
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Church was the first president as well as an honorary director for life of the National Rifle Association. He was a fellow in perpetuity of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a life member and director of the New York Zoological Society, an original member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, of which he was also senior vice-commander. He was a member of the National Council of the National Economic League, and of the Executive Committee of the National Security League. He was also chairman of the committee in New York which erected a monument to John Ericsson and he delivered an oration at the dedication.
In 1863 Church was married to Mary Elizabeth Metcalf.
