“It was a touching sight that aged negro kneeling at the feet of the tall, gaunt-looking man who seemed in himself to be bearing all the grief of the nation, and whose sad face seemed to say, 'I suffer for you all, but will do all I can to help you.”

— David Dixon Porter

Source: 1880s, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), p. 295

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