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Ulysses S. Grant to be promoted
12-28-2022, 09:33 AM (This post was last modified: 12-29-2022 07:52 AM by David Lockmiller.)
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RE: Ulysses S. Grant to be promoted
I neglected to add the date of this event.

On March 8, [1864], Grant arrived and called that evening at the White House, where a public reception was being held. Noah Brooks described him on that occasion as "rather slightly built," with "stooping shoulders, mild blue eyes and light brown hair and whiskers, with a foxy tinge to his mustache. He has a frank, manly bearing, wears an ordinary-looking military suit, and doesn't put on any airs whatever." When Lincoln heard the crowd buzz, he knew Grant was on the premises, and hurried to welcome him, warmly shaking his hand.

(Abraham Lincoln: A Life, Vol. Two, page 629.)

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