Excerpt from the lecture series and book Who Killed Grant, by Professor William H. Seward III, Dean of History, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 9, 1954.
Union Retreat
Just north of New Market, Virginia — May 15th, 1864
Orders were orders, and if the General needed him to wait for the latest telegraph from Washington, Sergeant Evan Proctor would wait. It was not the first time he had been held back from General Grant’s movements, but this delay felt different. So