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General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant, Chapter 27 (search)
it had been definitely decided that Sheridan was to remain with our army, then in front of Petersburg. Sheridan's command was made separate from the Army of the Potomac, and was to be subject only to direct orders from the general-in-chief. The cavalry commander had cheerfully given up the command of the Middle Military Division to take the field at the head of the cavalry corps, and General Grant felt that he was entitled to every consideration which could be shown him, The next morning (March 28) Admiral Porter came to headquarters, and in the course of his conversation said to Sherman: When you were in the region of those swamps and overflowed rivers, coming through the Carolinas, didn't you wish you had my gunboats with you? Yes, answered Sherman; for those swamps were very much like that Western fellow's Fourth of July oration, of which a newspaper said, It was only knee-deep, but spread out over all creation. One day, on the march, while my men were wading a river which was s