Headquarters Dept. Of The Tenn.,
Vicksburg, Sept. 20, 1863.
My Dear Mother:
I want now to impress upon you, and I think you at
least, or at the last, will understand me and know I am in earnest, that
General Grant is the man of the nation, that the eyes of the nation are turned
upon him, that he has a world-wide celebrity, I was going to write, but I
should write, worldwide honest fame, and I should inform you further that he
does not write much or say much, but whatever he writes or says is strictly to
the point.
SOURCE: Walter George Smith, Life and letters of
Thomas Kilby Smith, p. 336-7
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