FOOTNOTES:
[79] See ante, pp. 237-241 (chapter on Reconstruction).
[80] Grant, Memoirs, ii. 460.
[81] Grant, Memoirs, ii. 459. This differs from the statement of N. and H. x. 216, that "amid the wildest enthusiasm, the President again reviewed the victorious regiments of Grant, marching through Petersburg in pursuit of Lee." Either picture is good; perhaps that of the silent, deserted city is not the less effective.
[82] Between March 29 and the date of surrender, 19,132 Confederates had been captured, a fate to which it was shrewdly suspected that many were not averse.
[83] May 11, 1865.