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Slowly mounted and rode away. When Craig returned to the porch he remarked, Paragraph symbol "Averell would you believe that man had ever belonged to the Army"? I replied paragraph symbol "Oh yes, might have been an old soldier."

Paragraph symbol ""I mean as an officer and a graduate of the Military Academy?" I said paragraph symbol "He don't look it now, who is he?" With an air of deep regret Craig answered paragraph symbol "That's old Ulysses Grant who used to belong to the 4th infantry. "He wanted me to employ him as Commissary Clerk, (to take charge of the supplies, superintend the herd of beef cattle and issue rations) in crossing the plains." And Craig went on to say that the regulations required him to use details of enlisted men for such duties. He said he was very sorry as Grant wanted to get to New Mexico or Texas where he hoped to get appointed sutler to some frontier post. *symbol Seven years later I saw the same man again in Washington, D.C.