Weekly Trinity Journal

Cumulative evidence as to the abstemiousness and sobriety of General Grant thickens as the matter is agitated and public attention is turned on his private walk and conversation. Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, who was, during the war, on the most intimate terms with General Grant, says of him:—"In camp he almost alone, among all the prominent officers of the army—never tolerated liquor or wine, either at his table or about his tent. Fatiguing marches, and the excitement and exhaustion of battle, did not make him break over his rule not to touch or taste anything alcoholic. Again and again we have seen wine offered him at public and private dinners, only to be steadily refused."