Hoping, (should time & inclination favor,) to give you a moment's diversion from the weight of official & political cares—& thinking, of all men, you can return to those scenes, in the vein I have written about them—I take the liberty of sending, (same mail with this) some reminiscences I have printed about the war, in nos. of the N. Y. Weekly Graphic.2
I am not sure you will remember me, or my occasional salute to you, in Washington. I am laid up here with tedious paralysis,—but think I shall get well & return to Washington.
Very respectfully Walt Whitman loc.02108.002_large.jpgCorrespondent:
Ulysses Simpson Grant
(1822–1885) was the highest ranking Union general of the Civil War. As
commander of the Army of the Potomac, he accepted the surrender of the
Confederate General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox. Grant was elected to two
consecutive terms as president, first in 1868 and again in 1872.