A STORY OF GENERAL GRANT.–

A STORY OF GENERAL GRANT.–

A visitor to the army called upon him one morning, and found the General sitting in his tent smoking, and talking to one of his staff-officers. The stranger approached the chieftain, and inquired of him as follows:–

“General, if you flank Lee, and get between him and Richmond, will you not ‘uncover Washington,’ and leave it a prey to the enemy?”

General Grant, discharging a cloud of smoke, with a “silver lining,” from his mouth, indifferently replied, “Yes, I reckon so.”

Stranger, encouraged by the reply he thus received, propounded question number two.–

“General, do you not think Lee can detach sufficient force from his army to reinforce Beauregard and overwhelm Butler?”

“Not a doubt of it,” replied the General.

Stranger, becoming fortified by his success, propounded question number three, as follows,–
“General, is there not danger that Johnston may come up and reinforce Lee, so that the latter will swing around and cut your communications and seize your supplies?”

“Very likely,” was the cool reply of the General, as he knocked the ashes from the end of his cigar with his little finger.

Stranger, horrified at the awful fate about to befall General Grant and the army, made his exit and hastened to Washington to communicate the “news.”

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