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aning up my desk to go to the city I find Pleasanton's criticisms on your book. You will find that after all it was Thomas and Rosecrans—principally Pleasanton—who captured Richmond. U. S. G. Letter no. Eighty. General Grant had met Colonel Chesney, the eminent British soldier and military critic, in India, and the letter and lecture which he forwarded contained some highly favorable comments on my history as well as on Grant's career. Lieutenant Green of the Engineer Corps, was engGrant in my presence, to invite remark. It is to this work that General Grant refers in the following letter: N. Y., Sept. 21st 1882. Dear Badeau,—We moved to the city yesterday. I find in my desk your letters inclosing one from Colonel Chesney—herewith returned—and his lecture. I will read the latter when I go home this evening. Green was at my house, at the Branch, Monday evening and read the second part of his book. He will be up early next week to finish it. He has foun