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Title: A cycle of Adams letters, 1861-1865
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Ford, Worthington Chauncey, 1858-1941 Adams, Charles Francis, 1807-1886 Adams, Henry, 1838-1918 Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915
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Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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not only approved it himselfbut gave me a letter of introduction to General Grant,with which I next day went down and presented my-self to the Lieutenant General. I found him sitting infront of his tent under a large fly talking with a cou-ple of his staff. I stated my business and presentedmy letter. He told me to be seated, read my letter,thought an instant puffing at his eternal cigar andstroking his beard as he listened to what I had to sayand then repUed in a short decided way: I will ap-prove your plan and request the Secretary to issue youthe horses and have an order made out for you togo to Washington to attend to it yourself. This wasthree times what I had expected to get from him, asI had no idea he would send me to Washington orrequest the issue of the horses, and accordingly I atonce became a violent Grant man. He immediatelywent into his tent and wrote the order on the backof Meades letter and then came out and talked aboutmatters in general, the weather, Colonel Buchanan
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ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT 1864.) A CYCLE OF ADAMS LETTERS 185 and the campaign, past, present and future, while myorder to go to Washington was being made out. I hadnever talked with Grant before and was glad of thissmall chance. He certainly has all the simphcity of avery great man, of one whose head has in no way beenturned by a rapid rise. A very approachable man,with easy, unaffected manners, neither stern nor vul-gar, he talked to me much as he would had he beenanother Captain of Cavalry whom I was visiting onbusiness. Just at that time Hancock was operating upthe James, towards Richmond, and he gave me thelast reports of what was doing there, and then discussedthe campaign and the failure of Burnsides mine, un-equivocally attributing the last to the bad behavior ofthe men who constituted the storming party. He saidthat he ought to have routed Lee at Spottsylvania andwould have done so but for his own misapprehensionas to the enemys weak place, and when he found itout his reserve Cor

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