intense pain which I at times still suffered from my experience in

the unfortunate hand-car incident on the Cumberland Mountains the

previous July. I returned from leave the latter part of March,

rejoining my division with the expectation that the campaign in that

section would begin as early as April.

On the 12th of March, 1864, General Grant was assigned to the command

of the armies of the United States, as general-in-chief. He was

already in Washington, whither he had gone to receive his commission

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