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Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 47: (search)
t was prejudice or partiality, or what not, he thought higher even of Sherman and Sheridan because they were graduates of the Academy; and all through the war and afterward men like Ingalls and Wallen and Dent had peculiar relations with him because of this earlier intimacy. Some richly deserved the retention of the tie; others not at all; but whether they deserved it or not the camaraderie of the cadet life and of camp lasted with Grant to the end. In the concluding months of his life General Tower, whom he had seldom met during the war, and not very often afterward, went to his house and discussed the Mexican campaigns, and Grant at once mellowed toward him in an unusual way. The St. Louis friends of the inferior sort were among his worst enemies. These men traded deliberately on the little services they had been able to render him when he was in need; they reminded him of those services, not always in words, but by their presence: sometimes they went further, to my knowledge,
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 49: (search)
told Mrs. Grant what I meant to do in advance, and reported the result afterward, and she approved it all. He enjoyed his labors now, and quite got the literary fever for a while. He liked to have his pages read aloud to the family in the evening, so that he might hear how they, sounded and receive their comments. He worked, however, for the most part from ten or eleven o'clock in the morning until two or three in the afternoon, and sometimes again later in the day. Once in a while General Tower, a comrade in the Mexican War, came in and discussed the chapters describing the capture of Vera Cruz or the march on Mexico. Sometimes Mr. Chaffee listened to the political passages, and begged the General not to emasculate them, but to say all he thought without fear or favor. Daily about one o'clock he was interrupted by his grandchildren, who stopped as they passed to their lunch, and looked in at the open door, not entering till he saw them and summoned them. Their prattle and