The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, et cetera . GRAND REVIEW OF THE ARMY Ol IIIE POTOMAC BY PRESIDENT General Joseph Hooker had now been in command of the army since. LINXOLN, AT FALMOUTH, VA., IN APRIL, 1863 January 25, 1863, and had brought it into splendid form. LINCOLNS SEARCH FOR A GENERAL 143 ing with men, in the West a man had been painfully and si-lently making himself. His name was Ulysses S. GrantThe President ha
The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, et cetera . GRAND REVIEW OF THE ARMY Ol IIIE POTOMAC BY PRESIDENT General Joseph Hooker had now been in command of the army since. LINXOLN, AT FALMOUTH, VA., IN APRIL, 1863 January 25, 1863, and had brought it into splendid form. LINCOLNS SEARCH FOR A GENERAL 143 ing with men, in the West a man had been painfully and si-lently making himself. His name was Ulysses S. GrantThe President had known nothing of his coming into thearmy. No political party had demanded him; indeed he hadfound it difficult at first, West Point graduate though he wasand great as the need of trained service was, to secure thelowest appointment. He had taken what he could get, how-ever, and from the start he had always done promptly thething asked of him; more than that, he seemed always to belooking for things to do. It was these habits of his thatbrought him at last, in February of 1862, to the command ofa movement in which Lincoln was deeply interested. Thiswas the capture of Forts Henry and Donelson, near themouth of the Tennessee river. Our success or failure atFort Donelson is vastly important, and I beg you to putyour soul in the effo
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