I was on the other side of the river, where he could get no communication from me until the next morning.

General Sheridan pushed on at once without orders, got to the place fifteen minutes before the rebels, and captured the supplies.

After the surrender was concluded, the first thing General Lee asked me for was rations for his men.

I issued to them the same provisions which Sheridan had captured.

Now if Sheridan, as most men would have done, had waited for orders from me, Lee would have got off." I listened with wonder at the generous modesty which, before that brilliant company, could remove one of the brightest laurels from his own brow and place it on the brow of Sheridan.
I had another memorable conversation with Grant, not so pleasant.
It revealed a capacity of intense passion which I do not know that he ever manifested on any other occasion.