![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meade is over on near end of the bench in the lower left. Meade came over, and, noticing that Grant’s uniform coat was unbuttoned, began buttoning it up “as if he were a little boy,” an aide remembered, while also saying calmly, “It’s Griffin, not Gregg, and it’s only his way of talking.” That’s Grant, the kind of rumpled guy just to the right of the guy reading the paper in front of the tree. Grant, sitting nearby, whittling and smoking, growled to General George Meade, his top aide, “Who is this Gen. Condemning by name several officers including his immediate superior, he then stomped away again. Griffin complained loudly that he’d pushed back the Confederates but, getting no support, had had to retreat. Lee, an irate General Charles Griffin stormed into Union headquarters. Grant was new in command of the Northern troops facing the Rebels of Robert E. In May, 1864, during the Battle of the Wilderness, when Ulysses S. ![]()
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