 Gracie socialized with a group he called “our coterie”, joined by Candee, his friend J. Clinch Smith, and several others.He also spent time reading books he had found in the first-class library and discussing the Civil War with Isidor Straus.He was known among the other first-class passengers as a tireless raconteur who had an inexhaustible supply of stories about Chickamauga and the American Civil War in general.