“His error was in going to Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks’s party. At Banks’s party they probably had a little too much liquor. Afterward Grant was riding very, very rapidly; his horse shied when it saw an omnibus driving along the city streets.” American Civil WarCivil War Western TheaterAmerican Civil War Biography Book:Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War Source: Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War