CHAPTER IX.

Visit to Grant's Head-quarters.--His Anecdotes of Army Life.--Banks relieved.--Canby in Command.--Bailey at Mobile.--Death of Bailey.--Canby as a Civil Governor.--Confiscated Property.--Proposes to rebuild Levees.--Is stopped by Sheridan.--Canby appeals.--Is sustained, but too late.--Levees destroyed by Floods.--Conflict of Jurisdiction.--Action of President Johnson.--Sheridan abolishes Canby's Provost Marshal's Department.--Canby asks to be recalled.--Is ordered to Washington.--To Galveston.--To Richmond.--To Charleston.--Is murdered by the Modocs.--His Character 105