I remember well to have said that we could not control that event; that this necessarily rested with our enemy; and I inferred that both Jeff.

Davis and General Lee would be forced to fight one more desperate and bloody battle.

I rather supposed it would fall on me, somewhere near Raleigh; and General Grant added that, if Lee would only wait a few more days, he would have his army so disposed that if the enemy should abandon Richmond, and attempt to make junction with General Jos.

Johnston in North Carolina, he (General Grant) would be on his heels.

Mr.Lincoln more than once expressed uneasiness that I was not with my army at Goldsboro', when I again assured him that General Schofield was fully competent to command in my absence; that I was going to start back that very day, and that Admiral Porter had kindly provided for me the steamer Bat, which he said was much swifter than my own vessel, the Russia.