ion banquet in Cincinnati, May 6, 1889. _Sketches War History_,
vol. iv., p. 23.

(17) _War Records_, vol. xliii., Part I., p. 581.

(18) _War Records_, vol. xliii., Part I., p. 228, 234, 251-2, 202.

(19) _Ibid_., p. 562 (Early's Report).

(20) _War Records_, vol. xliii., Part I., p. 234.

(21) _War Records_, vol. xliii., Part I., p. 250-1.

(22) _Battles and Leaders_, etc., vol. iv., p. 528.

(23) _War Records_, vol. xliii., Part I., pp. 562-3, 580.

(24) _Ibid_., p. 524.

(25) _War Records_, vol. xliii., Part I., pp. 562-3.

(26) Napoleon once remarked, "How much to be pitied is a general
the day after a lost battle!"

(27) _Memoirs of Sheridan_, vol. ii., p. 211.

(28) The distance from Winchester to Middletown is twelve miles.

(29) _War Records_, vol. xliii., Part I., pp. 131, 137.

(30) Great events in war are not always measured by the quantity
of blood shed. Sherman's dead and wounded list on his march from
"Atlanta to the Sea" was only 531. _Life of Grant_ (Church), pp.
297-8.

(31) _Battles and Leaders_, etc., vol. iv., p. 532.

CHAPTER XI
Peace Negotiations--Lee's Suggestion to Jefferson Davis, 1862--
Fernando Wood's Correspondence with Mr. Lincoln, 1862--Mr. Stephens
at Fortress Monroe, 1863--Horace Greeley--Niagara Falls Conference,
1864--Jacquess-Gilmore Visits to Richmond, 1863-4--F. P. Blair,
Sen., Conference with Mr. Davis, 1865--Hampton Roads Conference,
Mr. Lincoln and Seward and Stephens and Others, 1865--Ord-Longstreet,
Lee and Grant Correspondence, 1865, and Lew Wallace and General
Slaughter, Point Isabel Conference, 1865.

The war had now lasted nearly four years, with varied success in
all the military departments, and the people North and South had
long been satiated with its dire calamities. There had, from the
start, been an anti-war party in the North, and in certain localities
South there were large numbers of loyal men, many of whom joined
the Union Army. The South was becoming exhausted in men and means.
The blockade had become so efficient as to render it almost impossible
for the Confederate authorities to get foreign supplies. It seemed
to unprejudiced observers that the Confederacy must soon collapse.
Sherman in his march from "Atlanta to the Sea" had cut the Confederacy
in twain. It was without gold or silver, and its paper issues were
valueless and passed only by compulsion within the Confederate
lines. Provisions were obtainable only b