FOOTNOTES:
[128] This fact was given to me by General Dodge, in writing.
[129] John Bigelow's Diary, under date Nov. 28, 1872, contains the following entry:
"Greeley is now in a madhouse, and before morning will probably be dead—so Swinton tells me to-day; and Reid, whom I saw to-day, confirms these apprehensions." Retrospections of an Active Life, v, 91.
[130] Cong. Globe, 1873, p. 1744.
[131] Rhodes thinks that the influence which prevailed with Grant in this instance was that of Morton. (History of the United States, vii, 111.)