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| Tango01 | 17 Aug 2020 3:54 p.m. PST |
…a failure. "Well before dawn on Nov. 2, 1861, an elderly, white-haired general was driven in a carriage through the rain-lashed streets of Washington to the B&O railroad station near the Capitol. He was a big man: 6-foot-5 and 300 pounds. But he was so infirm that he couldn't walk more than a few steps unaided and hadn't been able to ride a horse in years. He had been an Army officer a half-century, a national hero and, once, a presidential candidate. But at 75, he had been forced by circumstances to resign as the Army's commanding general. And as he made his way to the waiting room, his handsome young replacement was splashing through the storm with his cavalry escort to bid the old man goodbye…"
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