. A personal history of Ulysses S. Grant, and sketch of Schuyler Colfax. t, formally assign-ing him to the command of all the forces of the United States,with head-quarters in the field. Halleck was to continueat Washington as chief of staff of the armies under him ;Sherman to succeed him in command of the Military Divi-sion of the Mississippi, and McPherson to take Shermansplace at the head of the Army and the Department of theTennessee. Grant had lifted up his lieutenants with him. On the way East again, Sherman, summoned by tele-graph, accompanied him from Nashville to Cincinnati forconfere
. A personal history of Ulysses S. Grant, and sketch of Schuyler Colfax. t, formally assign-ing him to the command of all the forces of the United States,with head-quarters in the field. Halleck was to continueat Washington as chief of staff of the armies under him ;Sherman to succeed him in command of the Military Divi-sion of the Mississippi, and McPherson to take Shermansplace at the head of the Army and the Department of theTennessee. Grant had lifted up his lieutenants with him. On the way East again, Sherman, summoned by tele-graph, accompanied him from Nashville to Cincinnati forconference. He spent part of another day at his fathers,where there were several visitors. Something being saidabout generals who had failed, one of those littlepitchers which have long ears, asked :— What is it to fail % 8 Well, my son, replied the Lieutenant-General, whenyou try to get a boy down, and cant—thats to fail. I suppose now, said Jesse, its on to Richmond. No ; on to Lees army. But how« A puff from the cigar and a shrug of the shoulders werethe only
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