Men of the time : being biographies of generals Hooker, Rosencrans, Grant, McClernand, Mitchell . made them victories, were yet pro-jected, and, in part at least, planned by General Grant. The General sought no furlough nor respite during thoseeighteen months of arduous duty. His way to do things is tosee to affairs personally. He is patient, studious, careful, con-siderate—at once an indefatigable worker, and a man of extra-ordinary courage. In all his battles he has invariably exposedhimself without stint, and asked no soldier to take any risk hewould not himself incur. In person, he is of c
Men of the time : being biographies of generals Hooker, Rosencrans, Grant, McClernand, Mitchell . made them victories, were yet pro-jected, and, in part at least, planned by General Grant. The General sought no furlough nor respite during thoseeighteen months of arduous duty. His way to do things is tosee to affairs personally. He is patient, studious, careful, con-siderate—at once an indefatigable worker, and a man of extra-ordinary courage. In all his battles he has invariably exposedhimself without stint, and asked no soldier to take any risk hewould not himself incur. In person, he is of commanding form, with a bright, clearblue eye, and a fair complexion, though now bronzed byexposure ; he impresses the visitor as a genial, courteous, gen-tlemanly man of good address and fair executive abilities. He is thoroughly loyal, and if, in the conduct of a battle,other Generals seem to surpass him in skill of combination or in readiness of resource, none excel him in daring, in dis-cretion, in economy of human life, in devotion to duty, and infaith in the sublime cause of the MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN A. McCLERNAND. MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN ALEXANDER MC CLERNAND. 83 MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN ALEXANDER M^CLERNAND. The West has produced wonderfully efHcient soldiers, not,because its citizens are braver than those of the Eastern andMiddle States, but for the reason that only the ablest menhave been given commands. There is no country on theglobe where the ipeo-ple read men more scrutinizingly than inthe Western States. A free atmosphere—a region of limitlessfarms and fortunes—a section where a man is judged forwhat he is, not for what he has—all have conspired to makeWestern men quick judges and severe censors, and have con-tributed, in no small degree, to indicate their rulers in the field. General McClernaud is a peoples man. He comes fromthe people, his heart beats with and for them, and his patri-otic ardor is in that tenfold degree necessary to inspire theconfidence requi
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