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...found his fighter.When Ulysses S. Grant took command in the East, Lincoln didn't, for once, demand specific plans. Six weeks later Grant had lost more men than every general before him, but Robert E. Lee's army was bottled up in Petersburg, Va. "Hold on with a bull-dog grip," Lincoln urged Grant. Unlike his predecessors, Grant...
...Lincoln professed to Grant that he just wanted someone to "take the responsibility and act." But as Robert E. Lee's legend grew, so did the list of failed Union commanders...
PROMISE The fastidious Ohioan didn't drink or smoke. He wanted more time to train the Army, but Lincoln ordered him ahead, saying "They are green also...
PROMISE A courageous soldier and hard drinker, "Fighting Joe" once openly mused about becoming a dictator, drawing a sarcastic rebuke from Lincoln...
PROMISE An unmitigated failure as a civilian, he was nearly sacked after the carnage at Shiloh in 1862. Lincoln stood by him, saying simply "He fights...