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Chapter 48:
Grant in his family.
I first saw
Grant at
Nashville soon after the
battle of Chattanooga; his wife and his youngest child were with him, and this was typical of all I knew of him. It is hard for me to think of him apart from his family.
All through the war,
Mrs. Grant visited him whenever he remained for a while in a town, and even in the field she often shared his tent or cabin when the armies were not engaged in active operations.
In 1877 I wrote to him asking for information in regard to her visits, for my history of his campaigns, and he answered from
Paris:
I cannot give you definite information as to dates when Mrs. Grant visited me at City Point.
She went there, however, soon after my headquarters were established there.
She returned to Burlington, N. J., after a short visit, to arrange for the children's schooling, and went back to City Point, where she remained with the exception of two short visits to New Jersey until Lee's surrender and my return to the national Capital.
Mrs. Grant made a short visit to me—the first time after leaving Cairo—at Corinth, next at Jackson, Tenn., then at Memphis, where I left her when I went to Young's Point, one or two days before running the Vicksburg batteries, and at Vicksburg after the surrender.
She again visited me at Nashville.
I venture to add what I wrote after this in my history.
It was submitted to
General Grant and read to his wife, and approved by both.
Indeed, every line in my history was read by him before it finally went to the printer, and had his sanction
