Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Mr. Ross” in chapter 25 of Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II.:

...derable hesitation, assented ; after negativing, by the emphatic vote of 117 to 19, a motion, by Gen. Garfield, to lay the proposition on the table, and adopting, by 111 to 41, an amendment moved by Mr. Ross , of Ill., respectfully recommending Ulysses S. Grant for the post. The Senate concurred: Yeas 31; Nays 6: having first amended the joint resolve so as to strike out so much of it as limited the ex...
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