Headquarters Army Of Potomac
April 12, ’64
Yesterday we all
rode to Culpeper, and saw General Grant, who went last night to Washington, and
did go thence to Annapolis. I was well pleased with all the officers down
there; among others was a Lieutenant-Colonel Comstock, a Massachusetts man. He
had somewhat the air of a Yankee schoolmaster, buttoned in a military coat.
Grant is a man of a good deal of rough dignity; rather taciturn; quick and
decided in speech. He habitually wears an expression as if he had determined to
drive his head through a brick wall, and was about to do it. I have much
confidence in him.
SOURCE: George R. Agassiz, Editor, Meade’s
Headquarters, 1863-1865: Letters of Colonel Theodore Lyman from the Wilderness
to Appomattox, p. 81
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