What he could not take away he destroyed, so that the enemy would not be invited to come back there.

I congratulated Sheridan upon his recent great victory and had a salute of a hundred guns fired in honor of it, the guns being aimed at the enemy around Petersburg.

I also notified the other commanders throughout the country, who also fired salutes in honor of his victory.
I had reason to believe that the administration was a little afraid to have a decisive battle at that time, for fear it might go against us and have a bad effect on the November elections.

The convention which had met and made its nomination of the Democratic candidate for the presidency had declared the war a failure.

Treason was talked as boldly in Chicago at that convention as ever been in Charleston.