I will add that my conversation
before the Cabinet embraced other matter not pertinent here, and is
therefore left out.
I in no wise admitted the correctness of the President's statement of
our conversations, though, to soften the evident contradiction my
statement gave, I said (alluding to our first conversation on the
subject) the President might have understood me the way he said, namely,
that I had promised to resign if I did not resist the reinstatement.
I made no such promise.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
U.S. GRANT, _General_.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES,
_January 30, 1868_.
Respectfully forwarded to the Secretary of War for his information.
U.S. GRANT, _General_.
[Indorsement of the President on General Grant's note of January 24,
1868.[49]]
JANUARY 29, 1868.
As requested in this communication, General Grant is instructed in
writing not to obey any order from the War Department assumed to be
issued by the direction of the President unless such order is known by
the General Commanding the armies of the United States to have been
authorized by the Executive.
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