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ON THE VIRGINIA CENTRAL RAILROAD--RAID ON THE
WELDON RAILROAD--EARLY'S MOVEMENT UPON
WASHINGTON--MINING THE WORKS BEFORE
PETERSBURG--EXPLOSION OF THE MINE BEFORE
PETERSBURG --CAMPAIGN IN THE SHENANDOAH
VALLEY--CAPTURE OF THE WELDON RAILROAD.

CHAPTER LVIII.
SHERIDAN'S ADVANCE--VISIT TO SHERIDAN--SHERIDAN'S
VICTORY IN THE SHENANDOAH--SHERIDAN'S RIDE TO
WINCHESTER--CLOSE OF THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE WINTER.

CHAPTER LIX.
THE CAMPAIGN IN GEORGIA--SHERMAN'S MARCH TO THE
SEA--WAR ANECDOTES--THE MARCH ON
SAVANNAH--INVESTMENT OF SAVANNAH--CAPTURE OF
SAVANNAH.

CHAPTER LX.
THE BATTLE OF FRANKLIN--THE BATTLE OF NASHVILLE

CHAPTER LXI.
EXPEDITION AGAINST FORT FISHER--ATTACK ON THE

FORT--FAILURE OF THE EXPEDITION--SECOND EXPEDITION
AGAINST THE FORT--CAPTURE OF FORT FISHER.

CHAPTER LXII.
SHERMAN'S MARCH NORTH--SHERIDAN ORDERED TO
LYNCHBURG--CANBY ORDERED TO MOVE AGAINST
MOBILE--MOVEMENTS OF SCHOFIELD AND
THOMAS--CAPTURE OF COLUMBIA, SOUTH
CAROLINA--SHERMAN IN THE CAROLINAS.

CHAPTER LXIII.
ARRIVAL OF THE PEACE COMMISSIONERS--LINCOLN AND
THE PEACE COMMISSIONERS--AN ANECDOTE OF
LINCOLN--THE WINTER BEFORE PETERSBURG--SHERIDAN
DESTROYS THE RAILROAD--GORDON CARRIES THE PICKET
LINE--PARKE RECAPTURES THE LINE--THE BATTLE OF
WHITE OAK ROAD.

CHAPTER LXIV.
INTERVIEW WITH SHERIDAN--GRAND MOVEMENT OF THE
ARMY OF THE POTOMAC--SHERIDAN'S ADVANCE ON FIVE
FORKS--BATTLE OF FIVE FORKS--PARKE AND WRIGHT
STORM THE ENEMY'S LINE--BATTLES BEFORE PETERSBURG.

CHAPTER LXV.
THE CAPTURE OF PETERSBURG--MEETING PRESIDENT
LINCOLN IN PETERSBURG--THE CAPTURE OF
RICHMOND--PURSUING THE ENEMY--VISIT TO SHERIDAN
AND MEADE.

CHAPTER LXVI.

BATTLE OF SAILOR'S CREEK--ENGAGEMENT AT
FARMVILLE--CORRESPONDENCE WITH GENERAL
LEE--SHERIDAN INTERCEPTS THE ENEMY.

CHAPTER LXVII.
NEGOTIATIONS AT APPOMATTOX--INTERVIEW WITH LEE AT
MCLEAN'S HOUSE--THE TERMS OF SURRENDER--LEE'S
SURRENDER--INTERVIEW WITH LEE AFTER THE
SURRENDER.

CHAPTER LXVIII.
MORALE OF THE TWO ARMIES--RELATIVE CONDITIONS OF
THE NORTH AND SOUTH--PRESIDENT LINCOLN VISITS
RICHMOND--ARRIVAL AT WASHINGTON--PRESIDENT
LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION--PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S
POLICY.

CHAPTER LXIX.
SHERMAN AND JOHNSTON--JOHNSTON'S SURRENDER TO
SHERMAN--CAPTURE OF MOBILE--WILSON'S
EXPEDITION--CAPTURE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS--GENERAL
THOMAS'S QUALITIES--ESTIMATE OF GENERAL CANBY.

CHAPTER LXX.
THE END OF THE WAR--THE MARCH TO WASHINGTON--ONE
OF LINCOLN'S ANECDOTES--GRAND REVIEW AT
WASHINGTON--CHARACTERISTICS OF LINCOLN AND
STANTON--ESTIMATE OF THE DIFFERENT CORPS
COMMANDERS.
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX

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CHAPTER XL.
FIRST MEETING WITH SECRETARY STANTON--GENERAL
ROSECRANS--COMMANDING MILITARY DIVISION OF
MISSISSIPPI-- ANDREW JOHNSON'S ADDRESS--ARRIVAL AT
CHATTANOOGA.
The reply (to my telegram of October 16, 1863, from Cairo,
announcing my arrival at that point) came on the morning of the 17th,
directing me to proceed immediately to the Galt House, Louisville,
where I would meet an officer of the War Department with my
instructions. I left Cairo within an hour or two after the receipt of this
dispatch, going by rail via Indianapolis. Just as the train I was on was
starting out of the depot at Indianapolis a messenger came running up
to stop it, saying the Secretary of War was coming into the station and
wanted to see me.
I had never met Mr. Stanton up to that time, though we had held
frequent conversations over the wires the year before, when I was in
Tennessee. Occasionally at night he would order the wires between the
War Department and my headquarters to be connected, and we would
hold a conversation for an hour or two. On this occasion the Secretary
was accompanied by Governor Brough of Ohio, whom I had never met,
though he and my father had been old acquaintances. Mr. Stanton
dismissed the special train that had brought him to Indianapolis, and
accompanied me to Louisville.
Up to this time no hint had been given me of what was wanted after I
left Vicksburg, except the suggestion in one of Halleck's dispatches that
I had better go to Nashville and superintend the operation of troops sent
to relieve Rosecrans. Soon after we started the Secretary handed me
two orders, saying that I might take my choice of them. The two were
identical in all but one particular. Both created the "Military Division of
Mississippi," (giving me the command) composed of the Departments
of the Ohio, the Cumberland, and the Tennessee, and all the territory

from the Alleghanies to the Mississippi River north of Banks's
command in the south-west. One order left the department commanders
as they were, while the other relieved Rosecrans and assigned Thomas
to his place. I accepted the latter. We reached Louisville after night and,
if I remember rightly, in a cold, drizzling rain. The Secretary of War
told me afterwards that he caught a cold on that occasion from which
he never expected to recover. He never did.
A day was spent in Louisville, the Secretary giving me the military
news at the capital and talking about the disappointment at the results
of some of the campaigns. By the evening of the day after our arrival
all matters of discussion seemed exhausted, and I left the hotel to spend
the evening away, both Mrs. Grant (who was with me) and myself
having relatives living in Louisville. In the course of the evening Mr.
Stanton received a dispatch from Mr. C. A. Dana, then in Chattanooga,
informing him that unless prevented Rosecrans