. Grant, Lincoln, and the freedmen; reminiscences of the Civil War with special reference to the work for the contrabands and freedmen of the Mississippi Valley . Treasury Department which, though well-intentioned,gave us infinite trouble later on, and which were about tobe enforced just at the time Grant left for Chattanooga.^ On the lOth of October — to resume my story — Grantleft Vicksburg, and I accompanied him on the reverse ofthat trip down the river which we had made together notmany weeks before. Young Quincy Shirley went with us,on his way to a school where he could be fitted for West
. Grant, Lincoln, and the freedmen; reminiscences of the Civil War with special reference to the work for the contrabands and freedmen of the Mississippi Valley . Treasury Department which, though well-intentioned,gave us infinite trouble later on, and which were about tobe enforced just at the time Grant left for Chattanooga.^ On the lOth of October — to resume my story — Grantleft Vicksburg, and I accompanied him on the reverse ofthat trip down the river which we had made together notmany weeks before. Young Quincy Shirley went with us,on his way to a school where he could be fitted for WestPoint. General Rawlins, who, as Grants chief of staff, hadcharge of our expedition, was constantly urging upon thecaptain the necessity for haste. The old river boat wasrushed along at a speed which seemed as if it might provefatal at any moment, and the keel would scrape and grindthe river bottom in the most disturbing fashion. Six daysafter our departure we arrived at Cairo. Grant, in pursu-ance of further instructions which reached him next morn- 1 These complications are explained at some length in the course ofChapter XII. oL^i^.-i^^^^^^^^^-^-^^^.
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