Show I Grants Reticence About His Military Work While sitting at the messtable taking I breakfast I asked the ceneralinchief In all your battles up to this time I where do you think your presence upon the field was most useful in the accomplishing I ac-complishing of results He replied Well I dont know then after a pause perhaps at Shiloh I said I think it was last night when the attack was made on our right He did not follow up the subject for he always spoke with great reluctance about anything any-thing which was distinctly personal to himself The only way in which we could ever draw him out and induce him I to talk about events in ant military career was to make some misstatement Intentionally about an occurrence His I rerard for truth was so great that his mind always rebelled against inaccuracies inaccur-acies and in his desire to correct the error ho would go into an explanation of the facts and in doing so would often be led to talk With freedom upon the subject Campaigning with Grant by General Horace Porter in the January Century |