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Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 50: (search)
t professional soldiers in the army to command his corps, in the hope that Butler would avail himself of their talent and experience. To this Grant added in the margin, also in pencil: Note. Results convinced Grant that in his selection of one of these corps commanders he contributed largely to the failure in the capture of Petersburg on arrival of the Army of the Potomac on the banks of the James. The officer referred to was W. F. Smith. Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C., Oct. 23d, 1870. Dear Badeau,—I am in receipt of your letter in which you speak of the article you propose writing for the British press, and of getting something from Sheridan to aid you in preparing it. I have rec'd but one letter from Sheridan since he has been with the Prussians. It is probably too late for that letter to be of service to you; but I send it. It will at least interest you.—I also send you a review of the reviewer Adams, by Senator Howe. The Adams' do not possess one noble trait