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" It is highly creditable to General Grant, and in keeping with his courtly and knightly bearing toward General Lee, that in this mat- ter he was unwilling to have ascribed to him a degree of magnanim- ity as purely sentimental and romantic as it was baseless. Any one who in the future may be bold enough to repeat the mythical story that General Lee offered his sword to General Grant, which the lat- ter refused to accept, with the unqualified testimony of both Colonel Marshall and General Grant to the contrary, will be guilty of either palpable ignorance or deliberate misrepresentation.

" SPOTSWOOD BIRD. "Baltimore, August 5 > 1901."

(It may be added as a matter of local interest, that the magnifi- cent uniform and splendid sword which General Lee wore on the occasion of his interview with General Grant at Appomattox, were the gifts of Baltimore sympathizers and admirers.)

[From the Southern Practitioner, August, 1901.]

DR. SAMUEL P. MOORE.

The Surgeon-General of the Confederate States.

A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.

Record of His Services in the U. S. and Confederate States Armies.

[By SAMUEL E. LEWIS, M. D., Washington, D. C., late Assistant Surgeon, Confederate States Army ; First Vice-President of the Association of Med- ical Officers of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States.]

After the Memphis reunion, General Marcus J. Wright, of the War Records Office, Washington, D. C., was requested to furnish a biographical sketch of the late Surgeon-General of the Confederate States, Samuel Preston Moore, M. D., and he initiated correspon- dence to that end; but being very much occupied with other literary work, and long aware of the interest which the writer takes in what- ever relates to the medical and surgical history of the Confederacy,