r than that of a military colleague.

"General Sherman seems to have a strong personal regard for you,
general," remarked one of the party.

"Yes," responded General Grant, "there has always been the best of
feeling between Sherman and myself, although attempts have not been
wanting to make it appear otherwise."

"I have noticed such attempts," replied the person addressed, "but for
my part I have never needed any proof that they were wholly uncalled-for
and impertinent.

"Possibly you have never heard, general," continued the speaker, "how
heartily General Sherman rejoiced over your conquest and capture of
Lee's army. He was particularly gratified that he had not been obliged
to make any movement that would have given a pretext for saying that
your success was due in part to him. To those about him he exclaimed, in
his energetic way,--

"'I knew Grant would do it, for I knew the man. And I'm glad that he
accomplished it without my help. Nobody can say now that I have divided
with him the credit of this success. He has deserved it all, he has
gained it all, and I'm glad that he will have it all.'"

About noon the party arrived at Wiesbaden, where nobody seemed to expect
them except the people at the hotel where General Grant's courier had
engaged rooms. After dinner Mr. Seligman desired to tender a drive to
the general and Mrs. Grant, but they had disappeared. After a short
search, they were found sitting together alone in one of the arboreal
retreats of the Kurgarten. The general remarked that it was his custom
when he visited a city to explore it on foot, and that in this way he
had already made himself tolerably familiar, he thought, with the
general plan and situation of Wiesbaden. Mr. Seligman's invitation was
readily accepted, however, and half an hour later the party set out, in
a carriage, for the Russian Chapel.

Wiesbaden is one of the most ancient watering-places on the Continent.
It was a Roman military station, and upon the Heidenberg--a neighboring
eminence--are seen the traces of a Roman fortress. The remains of Roman
baths and a temple have also been found there, and its waters are
mentioned by Pliny. At a later period the Carlovingian monarchs
established at Wiesbaden an imperial residence. The city lies under the
southern slope of the Taunus Mountains, the rocky recesses of which
conceal the mysteries of its thermal springs. The hilly country for
miles around abounds in charming pleasure-ground