Reveille in Washington, 1860 - 1865 by Margaret Leech

[David Lockmiller]

(11-25-2017 03:56 PM)David Lockmiller Wrote:  I counter-counter with President Lincoln's conversation that he had early in his presidency with the Chief of the Army, Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott.

This was my mistake regarding the rank of Winfield Scott. He was not a Lieutenant-General.

"Ulysses S. Grant, the hero of Vicksburg and Chattanooga, arrived in the nation's capital on March 8, 1864, to take command of all the Union armies. A grateful Congress had revived the grade of lieutenant general, not held since George Washington, and Lincoln nominated Grant to receive the honored rank. With Grant's permission, Halleck became chief of staff, and Sherman assumed Grant's old command of the Western armies."

-- "Team of Rivals," by Doris Kearns Goodwin, page 614.