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[412] may be characterized as the ideal of a soldier: gifted with a magnetic presence and a superb personal gallantry, he was one of those lordly leaders who, upon the actual field of battle, rule the hearts of troops with a potent and irresistible mastery. Warren, young in the command of a corps, owed his promotion to the signal proofs of ability he had given, first as a brigadier, then as chief-engineer of the army, and latterly as the temporary commander of the Second Corps. Of a subtle, analytic intellect, endowed with an eminent talent for details, the clearest military coup d'oeil, and a fiery concentrated energy, he promised to take the first rank as a commander. Sedgwick, long the honored chief of the Sixth Corps, was the exemplar of steadfast soldierly obedience to duty: singularly gentle and child-like in character, he was scarcely more beloved in his own command than throughout the army. A fit leader for the cavalry corps had long been wanting. This desideratum was fully filled by the appointment of Major-General P. H. Sheridan. Although his experience had been confined to that of a divisional general of infantry in the West, enough was known of his character to justify the nomination, and his first campaign left no doubt of his preeminent fitness for the command. The staff organization of the Army of the Potomac remained unchanged. Brigadier-General H. J. Hunt continued to be the efficient chief of artillery; Major James C. Duane was chief-engineer, and Brigadier-General Rufus Ingalls.
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