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General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 44: post-bellum Pendant. (search)
Chapter 44: post-bellum Pendant. Old friends and their kindness General Grant his characteristic letter of introduction to President Johnson in business in New Orleans political unfriendliness cause of criticism of military career appointed surveyor of customs the old nurse. Some weeks after the surrender the His strong and characteristic letter to the President was as follows: Headquarters Armies of the United States, Washington, D. C., November 7, 1865. His Excellency A. Johnson, President: Knowing that General Longstreet, late of the army which was in rebellion against the authority of the United States, is in the city, and pretics, a brief review of the circumstances is in order. As will be readily recalled by my older readers (while for the younger it is a matter of history), President Johnson, after the war, adopted a reconstruction policy of his own, and some of the States were reorganized under it with Democratic governors and legislatures, and