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 parts of
Colorado I had never seen before.
The trip was a very hard one though full of interest.
I am satisfied this state has a great destiny before it. The new regions that I visited will show greater mineral resources than all that has been heretofore discovered in the state besides considerable agricultural resources.
But I will see you in September, when I shall be in New York, and then I can tell you more than I can write.
When I go to New York it will be determined whether I accept the Presidency of the Mining Co. to which I have been elected.
One thing is certain, I must do something to supplement my income or continue to live in
Galena or on a farm.
I have not got the means to live in a city.
With kindest regards of
Mrs. Grant, Fred. &
Buck—the latter has just left—I am as ever,
Yours Truly,
P. S. I do not return the chapter on F. F. supposing you have a duplicate as
Sherman's men had of all the R. R. tunnels the rebels destroyed.
