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General Horace Porte: this story:

There was an officer cle camp-fire when the Presi camp. Mr. Lincoln car took it in his hand, and midable weapon, but it d gerous to me as once did a One night I passed through

ville, when suddenly a man sprang from a dark alley and drew out a bowie-knife. It looked three times as long as that sword, though I don't suppose it really was. He flourished it in front of me. It glistened in the moonlight, and for several seconds he seemed to try to see how near he could come to cutting off my nose without doing it. Finally he said, 'Can you lend me five dollars on that?' I never reached in my pockets for money so quick in the whole course of my life. Handing him a bill, I said: 'There's ten dollars, neighbor. Now put up your scythe.""

Speaking to General Butler about the historical fact that every place that General Grant had ever taken had been held, never yielded up, Mr. Lincoln said, "When General Grant once gets possessed of a place he seems to hang on to it as if he had inherited it."

After the colored troops had been successful in making an assault, Lincoln once remarked: “I am glad the black boys have done well. I must go out and see them." He rode out with General Grant and staff, and the word was passed along the colored troops that the President was coming; then the cry arose everywhere, "Thar's

could scarcely respond to was a memorable sight to s their homage to the Libe on the way back to the ca enlisting the colored troops sition to it, but I said to s

day, 'Well, as long as we a able-bodied man to the fr try, I guess we had all be blind. I can express my s they have accomplished as an old-time abolitioni occasion in Illinois. He v his friends took him to see He didn't know it was a v for the purpose, and after t 'Well, all sectional prejudi due allowance for my pa darn me if I don't think th with any on 'em.'"

Meeting General Sheridan for the first time, he said, "General Sheridan, when this peculiar war began I thought a cavalryman should be at least six feet four inches high." But still holding Sheridan's hand in his earnest grasp and looking down on the little General, he added, "I have changed my mind-five feet four will do in a pinch." Sheridan measured five feet four and a half.

One day the President and the Secretary of State, accompanied by a young staff-officer, attended a review near Arlington, on the opposite side of the Potomac. An ambulance drawn by four mules was provided. When the party arrived on the Virginia side of the river, where the roads were rough and badly cut by artillery and army trains, the driver had so much difficulty with the team in his efforts to prevent the wheels from dropping into the ruts that he lost his temper and began to swear; the worse the road became, the greater became his profanity. At last the President said, in his pleasant manner, "Driver, my friend, are you an Episcopalian?"

Greatly astonished, the man made answer: "No, Mr. President, I ain't much of anything. But if I go to church at all I go to the Methodist church."