CHAPTER XXVI

Lincoln and Grant--Their Personal Relations--Grant's Success at Chattanooga--Appointed Lieutenant-General--Grant's First Visit to Washington--His Meeting with Lincoln--Lincoln's First Impressions of Grant--The First "General" Lincoln had Found--"That Presidential Grub"--True Version of the Whiskey Anecdote--Lincoln Tells Grant the Story of Sykes's Dog--"We'd Better Let Mr. Grant Have His Own Way"--Grant's Estimate of Lincoln