The Day Sherman, Grant, and Lincoln Met

While the Confederates struggled to figure out just how to escape from Petersburg, across the lines, General Grant had received word that General Sherman was about to visit. That afternoon, the two were reunited.

“Their encounter was more like that of two school-boys coming together after a vacation than the meeting of the chief actors in a great war tragedy,” wrote Horace Porter from Grant's staff. Porter was witness to the entire visit and supplied numerous stories and frivolity between the generals.

 

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