S.GRANT, Lieutenant-General." He had rightly concluded that it was time to bring the war home to a people engaged in raising crops from a prolific soil to feed the country's enemies, and devoting to the Confederacy its best youth.

I endorsed the programme in all its parts, for the stores of meat and grain that the valley provided, and the men it furnished for Lee's depleted regiments, were the strongest auxiliaries he possessed in the whole insurgent section.

In war a territory like this is a factor of great importance, and whichever adversary controls it permanently reaps all the advantages of its prosperity.

Hence, as I have said, I endorsed Grant's programme, for I do not hold war to mean simply that lines of men shall engage each other in battle, and material interests be ignored.

This is but a duel, in which one combatant seeks the other's life; war means much more, and is far worse than this.