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(09-30-2012 04:42 PM)Rob Wick Wrote:  1. Grant, Sherman and David Porter.
2. George E.A. Healy.
3. The Peacemakers
4. I would guess Porter.

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Rob

In the North & South magazine of January 2011, Carl R. Schendker, Jr. makes the following comment about the meetings (there were actually two):
"...the March 27 and 28 River Queen interviews figure importantly in Civil War lore, the only meetings ever bringing together the Union's holy trinity- Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman. These meetings spark the imagination, their poignancy nowhere captured better then by historian T. Harry Williams in Lincoln and His Generals. Describing Lincoln's April 8 departure from City Point, Williams ends his book with two chilling sentences: "Lincoln may have been thinking of the weary years of defeat-of McClellan, Burnside, Hooker-or of the hour of victory and Grant and Sherman. That day John Wilkes Booth registered at the National Hotel in Washington."