LINCOLN AND HIS GENERALS All the great soldiers destined to reap the harvest of glory, in obscurity when the war began. - Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, and Thomas unknown men in 1861. — The advantage of the Confederacy in its military leaders. - Lincoln's trials with McClellan and the earlier commanders. His remarkable letter to Hooker, January 26, 1863. — How he applied his gift of common sense to the art of war. -Some of his homely words of wisdom regarding strategy. - No meddlesome spirit. — Standing by Grant when the general was a stranger and friendless. "I can't spare this man; he fights."— His faith in him. "You were right and I was wrong." Grant, General-inchief in the spring of 1864. Grant and Sherman's estimates of Lincoln. His model relations with his generals. — His great achievement in maintaining the civil power supreme, and himself, the elected chief of the people, superior to military heroes. THE great captains destined to lead the armies of the Union to victory were unknown men when the war began. Grant had resigned his captaincy in the regular army and was a clerk in his father's leather store at Galena, Illinois, at a salary of fifty dollars a month. His duties were to keep books and buy hides from the farmers' wagons. He was thirty-nine and his life a failure, although he had shown in the Mexican campaign that he was a good hand at the trade of war. LINCOLN AND HIS GENERALS -- All the great soldiers destined to reap the harvest of glory, in obscurity when the war began. — Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, and Thomas unknown men in 1861. -The advantage of the Confederacy in its military leaders. - Lincoln's trials with McClellan and the earlier commanders. His remarkable letter to Hooker, January 26, 1863. - How he applied his gift of common sense to the art of war. -Some of his homely words of wisdom regarding strategy. - No meddlesome spirit. - Standing by Grant when the general was a stranger and friendless. "I can't spare this man; he fights.' His faith in him. "You were right and I was wrong." - Grant, General-inchief in the spring of 1864. - Grant and Sherman's estimates of Lincoln. His model relations with his generals. His great achievement in maintaining the civil power supreme, and himself, the elected chief of the people, superior to military heroes. THE great captains destined to lead the armies of the Union to victory were unknown men when the war began. Grant had resigned his captaincy in the regular army and was a clerk in his father's leather store at Galena, Illinois, at a salary of fifty dollars a month. His duties were to keep books and buy hides from the farmers' wagons. He was thirty-nine and his life a failure, although he had shown in the Mexican campaign that he was a good hand at the trade of war. |