A sudden change of
weather. Intensely cold. General Grant was in the council-room at the Executive
Mansion to-day, and stated the result of his observations and conclusions
during his journey South. He says the people are more loyal and better-disposed
than he expected to find them, and that every consideration calls for the early
reëstablishment of the Union. His views are sensible, patriotic, and wise. I
expressed a wish that he would make a written report, and that he communicate
also freely with the Members of Congress.
SOURCE: Gideon
Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and
Johnson, Vol. 2: April 1, 1864 — December 31, 1866, p. 396-7
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