In solemn silence his officers returned the salute, and watched the noble and gracious figure of their beloved chief until the boat disappeared from sight behind the point of the Battery.
At Philadelphia he stopped a few days and adjusted his accounts, which he had in characteristic fashion kept himself in the neatest and most methodical way.

He had drawn no pay, and had expended considerable sums from his private fortune, which he had omitted to charge to the government.

The gross amount of his expenses was about 15,000 pounds sterling, including secret service and other incidental outlays.

In these days of wild money-hunting, there is something worth pondering in this simple business settlement between a great general and his government, at the close of eight years of war.

This done, he started again on his journey.