Hello from another newbie

[MajGenl.Meade]

Thank you both. I don't think Meade was arrogant; he is peevish, the old snapping turtle, perhaps insensitive, and with a highly developed sense of what is right - i.e. yes, he was very conscious of what he thought he was owed by rights, even if he thought he didn't have the ability. He thought far more highly of Grant than I allow him to and tended to blame others for inflating Grant beyond what was "right". Grant annoyed him by promoting others - who though deserving should not have received the honour before him. He was the man who almost won Fredericksburg, let down by pusillanimous superiors. Lincoln cannot have "liked" him as he did Grant - too much the patrician. He never (IMO) forgave Lincoln for having Halleck criticise his deliberate follow-up at Gettysburg rather than smashing Lee when the chance was there. I don't know much about Lincoln's relationship with Meade - almost none, I imagine - but unlike McDowell, McClellan, Pope, Burnside and Hooker, he was neither fired, removed nor resigned for reasons of failure. Lincoln stuck with him, and that's worth a lot.