[ST. LOUIS, July
1868]
Of course Grant will
be elected. I have just travelled with him for two weeks, and the curiosity to
see him exhausted his and my patience. He is now cachéd down at his ranch
eleven miles below the city. . . .
SOURCE: Rachel
Sherman Thorndike, Editor, The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between
General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, p. 320
