A GENERAL'S ACCOUNT OF U.S. GRANT'S WHISKEY CONSUMPTION FRANKLIN, WILLIAM BUEL. Autograph Letter Signed, to General William Farrar Smith (lacking salutation), recounting the circumstances surrounding a drunken argument about the Battle of Cold Harbor between Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Smith. 3 pages, 8vo, written on three separate sheets; horizontal folds. (SFC) Hartford, 4 February no year
"I arrived at City Point in the morning of some day in the early part of July 1864, and spent the day at Gen. Grant's Head Quarters. In the evening you called, and I went to your Head Quarters with you, and spent the night there. Early the next morning you sent me in your ambulance to the terminus of the Railroad . . . . I arrived at Gen. Grant's Quarters in the afternoon by rail, and stayed there until the dusk of the evening. "Gen. [Rufus] Ingalls came over to Head Quarters, and in answer to my request for something to drink, he told me that if I would go over to a room in a house not far off, that . . . I would find a pitcher of water & . . . a bottle of whiskey. . . . I went there and . . . not long after, he and you came in together. Not long afterwards Gen. Grant came in, and after greeting us, he . . . helped himself to whiskey & water. Shortly afterwards he took another drink. These actions seemed to exasperate you, they certainly surprised me, and soon Gen. Grant & you were engaged in acrimonious talk on the doings at Cold Harbor. While it was going on I left the room."
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