...Old Flag" (Volume I., page 390), written by his great friend and admirer, Gen. James Harrison Wilson: "But when all proper measures had been taken, and...that he was stirred to the very depths of his soul." At this very time the records of the army published by the government show that Lee, "decisively" (?)...

...disaster "which threatened to overwhelm his army and put an end to his career." Gen. Wilson adds that "both Rawlins and Bowers concurred in the statement...downward on his cot, gave way to the greatest emotion." And they added that "not till it became apparent that the enemy was not pressing his advantage did...

...tension; but when all proper measures had been taken and there was nothing else to do but wait, he "went into his tent and throwing himself face downward on his cot gave way to the greatest emotion," without uttering a word. He was stirred to the very depths of his soul. Not till it was plain that...

...He insisted that other staff officers told him that after Grant issued his directives, the general "went into his tent, and, throwing himself face downward...without uttering any word of doubt or discouragement." Wilson dismissed Porter's account by remarking that Porter "knew [Grant] less intimately and had never...

...point in the battle Grant, overwhelmed by the carnage and especially by the deaths caused by fire, "went into his tent, and, throwing himself face downward...without uttering any word of doubt or discouragement," thus disproving the myth that he was "the stolid and indifferent man, without sensibility or emotion."...