CHAPTER XXIX.

1887-1890.

An Interesting Letter from General Grant--Sherman Living in New York--His Immense Popularity with All Americans-- Letters from Him--Exhibited Like a Circus--No Union Man Left in Foreign Service by Cleveland--He Writes for the Magazines--Magazines Again--Approves My Article in the North American Review on the March to the Sea--Humblest Union Man Better Patriot than the Proudest South Carolina Rebel--Sheridan Dying--Congress Should Make Rank of Lieutenant General Permanent--His Reception at Columbus-- Death of Mrs. Sherman--About His Memoirs--No Profit--The Army of the Tennessee at Cincinnati--My Poem There--An Odd Interview at the White House--Conversations with Secretary Blaine--Death of the Great General--Speeches About Him in the Senate--I Am Again Appointed to Switzerland. 287