Some like McClernand, McClellan, John Logan of Illinois and John Dix of New York were War Democrats whose support President Lincoln could hardly risk. His cardinal mistake is that he isolates himself, & allows nobody to see him; and by which he does not know what is going on in the very matter he is dealing with. T. Harry Williams / LINCOLN AND HIS GENERALS 1952 Book Club. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.” Hooker was chagrined and chastened. On October 3, 1862, Alexander Gardner photographed Lincoln and McClellan at the Fifth Corps headquarters. Once in command of the Union armies, Grant undertook a relentless and bloody campaign against Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Similarly, it would have been foolish to alienate General Carl Schurz, who was a leading German-American Republican. Will you not, for me, take that place? President Lincoln wrote Hunter gingerly on September 9, 1861: “Gen. Hunter’s ego was wounded by a presidential order in the fall of 1861 to take a command which he considered beneath his exalted rank. The Peacemakers (David Dixon Porter, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman). A signal contribution to Lincolniana in a study of the development of Lincoln's military policy towards his generals, Fremont, Banks, Grant, Sherman, McClellan, Scott. $9.99. There is no better way to demonstrate this understanding than to compare a passage in one of Grant’s letters to Lincoln to another from the pen of McClellan. Lincoln apparently was familiar with the Wolfe anecdote, and it is plausible that a delegation visited the President and requested the dismissal of General Grant for excessive drinking. Frémont needs assistance which it is difficult to give him. In March 1865, General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant invited President Lincoln to visit his headquarters at City Point, Virginia.By coincidence, Major General William Tecumseh Sherman (then campaigning in North Carolina) happened to visit City Point at the same time. Please see pictures for details, as they are considered part of the description. Lincoln and His Generals was the breakthrough book for Williams who had only written one book previously. Gift of Julia Dent Grant and William H. Vanderbilt, 1887. Washington, D.C. Email powered by MailChimp (Privacy Policy & Terms of Use). Lincoln unexpectedly visited McClellan and his army to observe its condition. This overlaps to some degree territory covered by Catton's recent Mr. Lincoln's Army (1950- P. 744), though the focus there is on the Army of the Potomac- and here the range of appraisal is wider. General William T. Sherman, one of the Army’s two leading generals at the end of the Civil War, only visited the White House once. He noted that Mr. Lincoln told General William T. Sherman at the end of the war that his warm relations with Generals Sherman and Grant had a simple base: “It was because you never found fault with me, from the days of Vicksburg down.” 2. In April of 1864, almost exactly a year before his assassination, Lincoln wrote, “I am naturally anti-slavery. $9.99. he needs to have, by his side, a man of large experience. Print showing President Abraham Lincoln sitting on a rock talking with his generals, from left: Admiral Porter, Admiral Farragut, Lincoln, Sherman, Thomas, Grant, and Sheridan. “Lincoln was a hands-on-commander in chief who persisted through a terrible ordeal of defeats and disappointments fo final triumph – and tragedy at the end.”5, Civil War Search Directory Ultimately, he was commander-in-chief. On March 4, 1864, Lincoln signed this certificate making Ulysses S. Grant a lieutenant general, a rank previously held only by George Washington. $11.22. Publication date 1925 Topics Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, Generals Publisher Philadelphia : Dorrance and company Collection illinoishistoryandlincoln; university_of_illinois_urbana-champaign; americana Digitizing sponsor Lincoln and McClellan Lincoln gave Gen. George McClellan the task of building and training the Union army in 1861. Founded by The Lehrman Institute. Lincoln’s knowledge of the Wolfe story would have made it easier for him to construct the clever riposte about sending whiskey to his other generals. Lincoln and His Generals-- A list and Information Links : Visit Mr. Lincoln’s White House for a General Discussion. Lincoln and McClellan: The Troubled Partnership between a President and His General by Waugh, John C. and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com. Lincoln and His Generals by T Harry Williams (1952 Hardcover). Bittersweet Harvest: Introduction/Introducción, Jamestown, Quebec, Santa Fe: Introducción, Jamestown, Québec, Santa Fe: Introduction, Treasures of American History: Introduction. He book was on the best seller list, he received rave reviews in national publications, and scholarly awards where he was teaching at the time, L.S.U. Lincoln took his commander in chief role seriously and often took an active part in the campaigns, at least before he finally found Grant. Lincoln and His Generals T. Harry Williams (The Civil War) 1st Ed. Your rank is one grade too high to be ordered to it; but will you not serve the country, and oblige me, by taking it voluntarily?”2, Ironically, Hunter subsequently got himself in the same kind of hot water with the President as Frémont —usurping the presidential prerogatives on slavery. Between 12th and 14th Streets Butler had been a Democrat before the war, but like Frémont, he had become a hero of Radical Republicans. 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