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General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant, Chapter6 (search)
Chapter 16
A disappointed band
master
Hunter's raid
Early's raid on Washington
Grant as a writer
Grant Devotes attention to Sherman
Grant's treatment of his Generals
Grant's equanimity
Grant as a Thinker
why Grant never swore
Meade and Warren
Seward visits Grant
Earthworks had been thrown across the neck of land upon which City Point is located.
This intrenched line ran from a point on the James to a point on the Appomattox River.
A small garrison had been detailed for its defense, and the commanding officer, wishing to do something that would afford the genera-in-chief special delight, arranged to send the band over to the headquarters camp to play for him while he was dining.
The garrison commander was in blissful ignorance of the fact that to the general the appreciation of music was a lacking sense and the musician's score a sealed book.
About the third evening after the band had begun its performances, the general, while sitting at the mess-table, rema
Chapter 30
Grant's ride to Appomattox
how Lee reached McLean's House
meeting between Grant and Lee
brief discussion as to the terms of surrender
drafting the terms, and the acceptance
Grant's consideration for the confederate Privates
rations for the paroled Army
It was proposed to the general to ride during th a trot toward Appomattox Court-house.
When five or six miles from the town, Colonel Newhall, Sheridan's adjutant-general, came riding up from the direction of Appomattox, and handed the general a communication.
This proved to be a duplicate of the letter from Lee that Lieutenant Pease had brought in from Meade's lines.
Lee was letter on Meade's front, and one on Sheridan's. Colonel Newhall joined our party, and after a few minutes' halt to read the letter we continued our ride toward Appomattox.
On the march I had asked the general several times how he felt.
To the same question now he replied: The pain in my head seemed to leave me the moment I got
Chapter 32
Sherman's terms to Joseph E. Johnston
the end of hostilities
the grand review at Washington
Grant's place in military history
As soon as the surrender at Appomattox had taken place, General Grant despatched a boat from City Point with a message to Sherman announcing the event, and telling him that he could offer the same terms to Johnston.
On April 18 Sherman entered into an agreement with Johnston which embraced political as well as merely military questions, but on nspicuous soldiers in history have risen to prominence by gradual steps, but the Union commander came before the people with a sudden bound.
Almost the first sight they caught of him was at Donelson.
From that event to the closing triumph of Appomattox he was the leader whose name was the harbinger of victory.
He was unquestionably the most aggressive fighter in the entire list of the world's famous soldiers.
He never once yielded up a stronghold he had wrested from his foe. He kept his ple