April 25, 1864.
. . . News of the capture of Plymouth by the enemy has also
been officially received, and does not differ materially from my statement of
it in yesterday's letter. I shall write you in a day or two the time fixed for
our movements here. This failure of General Banks has greatly disconcerted us,
and will I fear permit the enemy to bring forward here or against Sherman, as
they may deem best, from twenty to twenty-five thousand more men than they
would were Banks at the place it was ere this intended he should have been.
Mrs. Grant is in New York at Colonel Hilyer's. I see by the
papers she attended the great sanitary fair in that city and voted for General
McClellan on the sword question. Now I am free to say if she was required to
vote at all, she voted right, but I do think her voting at all is decidedly bad
taste, to say the least of it. If she desired to go to the fair she could have
made her donation in some other manner, one less calculated to get her name in
a paragraph of the daily newspapers. The General feels considerably annoyed
about the matter; still, of course, it amounts to very little in itself. . . .
SOURCE: James H. Wilson, The Life of John A. Rawlins,
p. 424-5
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