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Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 50: (search)
ew York cloth clothing is comfortable here. All desire to be remembered to you. Yours Truly, U. S. Grant. Letter no. Sixty-one. At the close of this letter, Grant alludes to the joke of one of the rebel soldiers in Sherman's Atlanta campaign. It was proposed to blow up a tunnel on the road over which Sherman brought his supplies. Oh h—ll, exclaimed the Confederate, Don't you know that Sherman carries duplicate tunnels with him on this march? Manitou Springs, Col., Aug. 12th, 1880. My dear General,—I returned here day before yesterday and found a mail awaiting me which has required all my spare time until now just to read. In it I find your two letters, and the first part of the chapter on Fort Fisher. I have read it carefully and do not see how a word can be changed. All that you say that exception can be taken to is supported by quotations, or citations to, orders and letters of instruction of the time. I have been away from here for ten days visiting pa