. Washington during war time : a series of papers, showing the military, political, and social phases, during 1861 to 1865. bullet, a few weeks before. His place was taken by heavy-jowled, red-faced his side stood the great organizer of victory, the iron-willedStanton, Secretary of War. [ 103] WASHINGTON DURING WAR TIME Most interesting of all in that group was the ruddy bearded,stoop-shouldered, quiet man with four stars in his straps, whohad commanded all the armies of the United States in the lastdecisive year of the war. A tanners clerk when the war began ;a colonel in his first
. Washington during war time : a series of papers, showing the military, political, and social phases, during 1861 to 1865. bullet, a few weeks before. His place was taken by heavy-jowled, red-faced his side stood the great organizer of victory, the iron-willedStanton, Secretary of War. [ 103] WASHINGTON DURING WAR TIME Most interesting of all in that group was the ruddy bearded,stoop-shouldered, quiet man with four stars in his straps, whohad commanded all the armies of the United States in the lastdecisive year of the war. A tanners clerk when the war began ;a colonel in his first campaign, who won every promotion bysuccess upon the field of battle ; who was constantly called to come up higher, because he had done so well below ; whohad never fought but to win ; and never organized but tosucceed. The end of the war saw him the sole commander ofa million battled-trained veterans, the mightiest host in everyway that the world had ever seen subject to one mans will,and there was but one voice as to the eminent fitness for thatpinnacle of unprecedented greatness of Lieutenant GeneralUlysses [ 104] JUS «i * - ? I i The Military Power of the United Statesas Shown During the War of theRebellion. By THOMAS McCURDY VINCENTBrigadier General, by brevet, U. S. Army N April, 1861, the Government of theUnited States was, for the purpose ofwar, paralyzed. It had not, practi-cally, an army to maintain its au-thority, and was far from being ableto attack the accessible quarter of an internal enemy, in conspiracyover an area of 733,144 squaremiles connected with a shore lineof 25,144 miles ; a coast line of 3,522miles ; and an interior boundary of7,031 miles. Had the people of the United States, throughCongress, been more thoughtful concerning the object of, andnecessity for, the military arm, paralysis would have beenavoided through the availability of a suitable force to crushthe initial of the Rebellion, and the State, in combat withits own children, would ha
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