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great lieutenants, even at the sacrifice of some of the credit that was often ascribed to himself. No reader can have failed to remark the magnanimity toward Sherman and Sheridan which these letters display;— letters written to fix, so far as he was able, the status that all three were to occupy in history; for my work he fully intended should be the only authorized expression of his views on the war. Ragatz, Switzerland, Sept. 18th, 1878. My dear General,—Your letter of the 12th of Sept. reached me at this place last evening. I have no recollection whatever of the dispatches you speak of between Sherman and myself about the 4th of October, 1864 and my subsequent dispatch saying that his movement should be independent of mine. I remember that I sent a ship-load of provisions to meet him on the seacoast wherever he might come out. I will be in Paris at the Hotel Liverpool, on the 25th of this month to remain there until about the 10th of Oct. when I expect to start f