Excerpt from Address of Ensign William H. Michael To overcome petty interferences with the gun boat service by subordinate army officers, Captain Foote was made a flag officer with the rank of major-general. This wise action placed him in position to use his own judgment for the most part in directing the movements of his vessels. Flag Officer Foote formed the acquaintance of General Grant at Cairo, which place became the base of operations for the army and flotilla late in. The fall of 1861. About this time Foote wrote to his wife, who was living in New Haven, Conn., and also to his devoted friend, Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, that General Grant was just the kind of man he could work with; that the fullest under standing existed between them; that Grant was a man of good, practical sense, without any pomp, and full of earnest patriotism. At another time he wrote that he and Grant talked over plans of operation as familiarly and as frankly as could two brothers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.