By the time he put down the memoir, he was quite old and going blind. He had moved from Poultney to Georgia, Vt. He recited the book to a white lawyer friend named Benjamin Prentiss who recorded it.
Quotes about prentiss (2 Quotes)
I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.