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18 Jun 2020 9:59 p.m. PST

… Needed to Fight the Civil War.

"After having recently stepped down as Commanding General of the Army, Sherman reviews a biographical article. While explaining the story of his being labeled insane in 1861 for believing that 200,000 Union troops would be needed, he asks that Secretary of War Simon Cameron's name be left out. Smalley published his article in the Century Magazine, January 1884…."
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