I therefore took them to Sherman's headquarters and presented them.

Before starting out to look at the lines--possibly while Sherman's horse was being saddled -- there were many questions asked about the late campaign, about which the North had been so imperfectly informed.

There was a little knot around Sherman and another around me, and I heard Sherman repeating, in the most animated manner, what he had said to me when we first looked down from Walnut Hills upon the land below on the 18th of May, adding: "Grant is entitled to every bit of the credit for the campaign; I opposed it.

I wrote him a letter about it." But for this speech it is not likely that Sherman's opposition would have ever been heard of.

His untiring energy and great efficiency during the campaign entitle him to a full share of all the credit due for its success.