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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., chapter 25 (search)
ven and campaigns made to carry them out. Whether they might have been better in conception and execution is for the people, who mourn the loss of friends fallen, and who have to pay the pecuniary cost, to say. All I can say is, that what I have done has been done conscientiously, to the best of my ability, and in what I conceived to be for the best interests of the whole country. Such were the views wherewith Gen. Grant, summoned from the West by telegraph, repaired to Washington March 8, 1864. to receive his commission and instructions as Lieutenant-General commanding all the forces of the Union. He was formally introduced, next day, to the President and Cabinet; when he was addressed by the former as follows: General Grant: The Nation's appreciation of what you have already done, and its reliance upon you for what still remains to be done in the existing great struggle, are now presented with this commission constituting you Lieutenant-General of the armies of the Unite