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The Sober Seeoad ThoughtEilraeJ* from WtMM l»rl»r*« Je»r-hAl from 1M2 t* 1863.Tha following extracts from Admiral Porter’s diary, some ^tbeai ^Jt^n ?t the same timaaa his leuer to Welles in cocdemRa*ioii of Gen. Grant, stow that he amt have written tbat leUer.onder a cwions pressure of dyspepaa and general irritation. Th* extracts appear in the Washington CftromWs of ho?* 5?Cairo, III., Nov. 1SCA—It was after a bar a day1* work at my desk, and going around amoag the vessels filling out. that I accepted an invitation lo supper with Capt- McAllister, Quarter Master U. 3. Army, *hO «as living 011 board an old steamer.We were enjoying ourselves amazingly when a Hule bustle was heard, aud Gen-Grant was announced.This was an unexpected arrival, for the General was supposed to he in Corinth.I had never seen Gen. Grant before, and he was quite a different peraoo from what I expected. I had seen so many Generals daring the war, with targe staffs following them about, that I naturally looked around ior Gen- Grant’s staff. I could, howeTprf sea nothing but my own officers with their weildaced coats-Captain McAllister came to my end of ikb cabin, with a plain-looking man, dressed in a citizen's brown cont, with a velvet collar, and a pair of gray pantaloons. All his biibiiiineats were covered with dost, and looked as if they had traveled many a mile.Those clothes, seedy in the extreme, adorned the outer man of Gen. Oiyssea Grant.
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Fort Wayne Daily Gazette
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Sat, Dec 10, 1870
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