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Nashville | 22 Mar 2014 5:51 a.m. PST |
link But those who had served closely with Grant knew how uneasily he considered this prospect, which most men in his position would have eagerly reached for as a crowning honor. Lt. Col. John A. Rawlins, his intensely dedicated and occasionally scolding chief of staff, wrote Washburne directly to say that Grant would not welcome any position that took him out of the field. Rear Adm. David D. Porter, who had led naval operations during the Vicksburg campaign, expressed a similar sentiment in a January 1864 letter to Secretary of Navy Gustavus Fox. Grant "don't like anything but fighting and smoking, and hates politics the way the devel [sic] does holy water — he don't want even to be Lieut. General until the war is over."
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John the OFM | 22 Mar 2014 6:03 a.m. PST |
Sometimes I think "humble" people doth protest too much. |
donlowry | 22 Mar 2014 9:51 a.m. PST |
Don't see anything new in the article, though it is well written. Grant told Charles Dana, when thanking him for helping to squelch his transfer to the AoP (this was before his promotion to lt. gen.): "Here I know the officers and men and what each Gen. is capable of as a separate commander. There I would have all to learn. Here I know the geography of the country and its resources. There it would be a new study. Besides more or less dissatisfaction would necessarily be produced by importing a General to Command an Army already well supplied with those who have grown up, and been promoted, with it." |
vtsaogames | 22 Mar 2014 10:08 a.m. PST |
Well written indeed. He sure didn't like being away from the front. He considered resigning when Halleck made him second-in-command after Shiloh and kept him cooling his heels in the rear. Sherman talked him out of quitting. In his memoirs he didn't fault Halleck at all, which makes me wonder if he never discovered the back stabbing Halleck did to him. |
donlowry | 22 Mar 2014 4:35 p.m. PST |
I believe he did eventually, after the war, when he had time and opportunity to go thru the old messages filed at the War Dept. |
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