As was once explained upon a memorable occasion: "There's figuring in all them things." When in Washington I had not met General Grant, because he was in the West up to the time of my leaving, but on a journey to and from Washington he stopped at Pittsburgh to make the necessary arrangements for his removal to the East.

I met him on the line upon both occasions and took him to dine with me in Pittsburgh.

There were no dining-cars then.

He was the most ordinary-looking man of high position I had ever met, and the last that one would select at first glance as a remarkable man.

I remember that Secretary of War Stanton said that when he visited the armies in the West, General Grant and his staff entered his car; he looked at them, one after the other, as they entered and seeing General Grant, said to himself, "Well, I do not know which is General Grant, but there is one that cannot be." Yet this was he.