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Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter XI (search)
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 14
Chapter 14:
Grant and Sherman
the intimacy between Grant and Sherman began at the battle of Shiloh.
They had been together at West Point, but in different classes, for Sherman was two years the senior; and they never met afterward either in the army or in civil life till Grant went to Pittsburg Landing.
The great struggle there in which they were so nearly worsted, and in which the splendid gallantry of the one so admirably supplemented the stubborn pluck of the other; the odium that came upon Grant afterward, which Sherman shared for a time, doubtless disclosed qualities in each to the other that the world had then not recognized; and the companionship under danger, responsibility, and detraction made them indeed brothers-in-arms.
Soon after this when Grant touched the lowest point in his career; when the press declared, and the country believed, that his course had precipitated defeat; when his superiors distrusted and disparaged him more profoundly even than the press o
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 20
Chapter 20:
Grant in society.
Grant was a plain man, but those are greatly mistaken who suppose that he was a common one.
His early life he has himself described as that of plain people at the West fifty or sixty years ago. He received, however, the advantages of West Point and its associations, and officers of the army in those days were considered eligible to any company.
At St. Louis he married into a family that held itself as high as any in the old society of that semi-Southern city; a society which was undoubtedly at that time provincial and narrow; its members had seen or known little of any world but their own, but the feeling they had that their position was equal to any gave them a certain distinction of bearing that nothing else could confer.
It was not a highly educated society, and resembled in some points the squirearchy of England that Macaulay describes; elevated in feeling though contracted in acquirement, and if over-conscious of its own consequence, nevert
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 43
Chapter 43:
Grant and Hancock.
Hancock and Grant were at West Point together.
They were good friends there, and Hancock used to call his future chief by the familiar nick-name of Sam Grant.
Long afterward, during the Wilderness campaign —it was the day after the great attack at Spottsylvania, when Hancock reported: I have finished up Johnson and am now going into Early—Grant nominated Hancock for brigadier-general in the regular Army.
Hancock remembered the old relationship of the cadet time, and said to the brother-in-law of the General-in-Chief, who told him the news: I love Sam Grant.
The regard was mutual.
At one moment in the battle of the Wilderness things looked very dark; Warren had been driven back at the center, and a rush of stragglers came hurrying in towards Grant's headquarters with the news that Hancock was routed.
Grant was seated on the ground whittling a stick; he simply turned the stick around and whittled the other end; and when it was again reported