The general received me most heartily, and we talked over matters very fully.

After I had been with him an hour or so, he remarked that the President, Mr.Lincoln, was then on board the steamer River Queen, lying at the wharf, and he proposed that we should call and see him.

We walked down to the wharf, went on board, and found Mr.
Lincoln alone, in the after-cabin.

He remembered me perfectly, and at once engaged in a most interesting conversation.

He was full of curiosity about the many incidents of our great march, which had reached him officially and through the newspapers, and seemed to enjoy very much the more ludicrous parts-about the "bummers," and their devices to collect food and forage when the outside world supposed us to be starving; but at the same time he expressed a good deal of anxiety lest some accident might happen to the army in North Carolina during my absence.