Headquarters Army Of The Potomac, October 18, 1864.
Yesterday General Grant came up in the morning with the
Secretary of War, Secretary of the Treasury, the Collector of New York, Mr.
Hooper, member of Congress from Boston, together with several military
dignitaries. They spent a short time at my headquarters, from whence I took
them to see a part of the lines, after which they returned to City Point, I
accompanying them. At City Point I met Admiral Porter and Captain Frailey, each
with his wife. As these ladies desired greatly to go to the front and see some
rebels, I persuaded their husbands to return with me, and we stopped the cars
near Hancock's headquarters, inspected our line and the rebel works, and then
went to Hancock's headquarters, who got us up a comfortable supper, and after
dark shelled the enemy's lines. They seemed greatly delighted, and returned
about 10 P. M. to City Point. Mr. Stanton was, as he always is, most kind and
civil to me.
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 2, p. 234-5
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