AUTUMN OF 1863



  Grant was now    nearly forly-two years old,
while Lee was fifty-seven. We have pictures of
them both as they impressed men capable of
drawing their portraits.
  This is a picture of Grant given by Richard
H. Dana, who fell in with him at Willard's Hotel
as be was about to leave for the army on the
Rapidan: "A short, round-shouldered man, in
a very tarnished major-gene al's uniform.
There was nothing marked in his appearance.
HIe had no gait, no station, 11o manner, rough,
light-brown whiskers, a blue eye, and rather a
scrubby look withal. A crowd formed round
him; men looked, stated at him, as if they were
taking his likeness, and two generals were intro-
duced. Still, I could not get his name. It was
not Hooker. Who could it be   He had a cigar
in his mouth, and rather the look of a man who
did, or once did, take a little too much to drink.
I inquired of the book-keeper, 'That is General
Grant.' I joined the starers. I saw that the
ordinary, scrubby-looking man, with a slightly
seedy look, as if he was out of office and on half
pay, and nothing to do but hang round the entry
of Willard's, cigar in mouth, had a clear blue eye,
and a look of resolution, as if he could not be
trifled with, and an entire indifference to the
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