Webster & Co., tell the story of his later military career while revealing the qualities as military commander which so endeared him to Lincoln. Grant’s personal memoirs, published in 1885 by Mark Twain and his publishing company, Charles L. Grant, Lincoln finally found his general, one “who would fight.” The list of prior commanders whose reticence and caution so vexed Lincoln numbers four, beginning with George McClellan and moving rapidly through Burnside, Hooker, and Meade. The appointment by President Abraham Lincoln of Grant as Commanding General of the entire Union Army in March of 1864 signaled the end of the president’s White House horrors with previous commanding generals who refused to carry the battlefield fight to Robert E. In stark contrast to his record as president, Grant’s accomplishments as Lieutenant General and leader of the Army of the Potomac in the U.S. His two presidential terms (1869-1877) were marred by widespread charges of corruption within his administrations. Like George Washington, Grant led the people of this land both in time of war and, subsequently, as president of the country. Few people have left so indelible a mark on the United States of America as did Ulysses S.
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