Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Gen. Scott” 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.:
... B. Washburne, of Illinois--the townsman and zealous friend of Gen. Grant--having proposed the revival of the grade of Lieutenant-General of our armies, hitherto accorded to George Washington alone ( Gen. Scott being such only by brevet), the House, not without considerable hesitation, assented ; after negativing, by the emphatic vote of 117 to 19, a motion, by Gen. Garfield, to lay the proposition on the ...
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