October 30, 1864
“Grant says I must
write a report of the whole campaign,” says the General, in the discontented
voice of a schoolboy who has been set a long exercise. “I can't write a report
of the whole campaign. I don't remember anything about some of it. I'm all
mixed up about the Tolopotomoy and the Pamunkey and the what-do-you-call-'em
Creek.” Hence it came that I was requested to give him some extracts from my
valuable archives, and I since have written a lot of notes for him, extending
from May 4th to August 28th. He is very quick with his pen, is the General, and
possesses a remarkable power of compressing a narrative and still making it
clear and telling.
SOURCE: George R. Agassiz, Editor, Meade’s
Headquarters, 1863-1865: Letters of Colonel Theodore Lyman from the Wilderness
to Appomattox, p. 256
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