General Grant never afterward communicated to me on the subject at all; and I inferred that Mr.Stanton, who was notoriously vindictive in his prejudices, would not consent to the employment of these high officers.

General Buell, toward the close of the war, published a bitter political letter, aimed at General Grant, reflecting on his general management of the war, and stated that both Generals Canby and Sherman had offered him a subordinate command, which he had declined because he had once outranked us.

This was not true as to me, or Canby either, I think, for both General Canby and I ranked him at West Point and in the old army, and he (General Buell) was only superior to us in the date of his commission as major-general, for a short period in 1862.

This newspaper communication, though aimed at General Grant, reacted on himself, for it closed his military career.

General Crittenden afterward obtained authority for service, and I offered him a division, but he declined it for the reason, as I understood it, that he had at one time commanded a corps.