. Redeeming the republic : the third period of the war of the rebellion, in the year 1864 . mond! General McClellanmoved down the Potomac and up to Yorktown and the Peninsula to laysiege to the city. In the estimation of General Grant, Richmond was ofsmall account. He would plan his campaigns to strike the Confederatearmies east and west at the same time. General Grant entered the Cabinet-room in the White House, and forthe first time in his life met President Lincoln. The members of theCabinet had assembled. General Halleck, to whom Granthad been a subordinate, was there; also Mr. E. B. Washb
. Redeeming the republic : the third period of the war of the rebellion, in the year 1864 . mond! General McClellanmoved down the Potomac and up to Yorktown and the Peninsula to laysiege to the city. In the estimation of General Grant, Richmond was ofsmall account. He would plan his campaigns to strike the Confederatearmies east and west at the same time. General Grant entered the Cabinet-room in the White House, and forthe first time in his life met President Lincoln. The members of theCabinet had assembled. General Halleck, to whom Granthad been a subordinate, was there; also Mr. E. B. Washburne,of Galena, member of Congress, who had been instrumental in securingGeneral Grants appointment as lieutenant-general. Two of his staff andhis eldest son accompanied him. It was a memorable scene, during theWar of the Revolution, when President Washington received his commis-sion as Commander of the Continental Army; and equally impressivethis, in which the President of the people, born in a slave State, unedu-cated in the schools, who had issued the proclamation abolishing slavery,. THE GREAT COMMANDER. 71 presented to this man, who when the war began was an obscure clerkselling leather, his commission as commander of a million men in the words of the President: General Grant, the nations apprecia-tion of what you have done, and its reliance upon you for what remains tobe done in the existing struggle, are now presented with this commis-sion constituting you lieutenant-general in the army of the United this high honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsi-bility. As the country herein trusts you, so, under God, it will sustainyou. I scarcely need add that with what I here speak for the nation goesmy own hearty personal concurrence. The words fell from tremblinglips, so deep the feeling of the President. This the reply: Mr. President, I accept the commission, with grat-itude for the high honor conferred. With the aid of the noble armiesthat
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