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The Daily Dispatch: January 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
s not a gentleman of intelligence and culture, and of polished manners in general society--for he is all this — but what I mean to affirm is, that when he is at the head of an army his whole being and character seem to be absorbed and merged in that of the soldier. He is destitute of diplomacy, and knows neither friends nor foes in the discharge of his duties. If one of his officers has been taken from civil life where he occupied a large space in public estimation, as in the case of Gen. Breckinridge, he shows him precisely the same consideration as he does the least distinguished of his subalterns who has won his way with his sword to the same position — neither more nor less. He expects the one to know his place and obey his orders as implicitly as the other. That this stern military rule is founded in abstract justice, if not in wisdom, no one can deny; and yet it, with his earnest, perhaps austere manners, when occupied with business, has had the effect to render him unpo