The Convention to-day is the absorbing theme but there is
something from the army relative to the late fights that disturbs me. We have
had severe slaughter. Brave men have been killed and maimed most fearfully, but
Grant persists.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 2: April 1, 1864 —
December 31, 1866, p. 46
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