Grant’s Commission On March 9, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln officially commissioned Ulysses S. Grant the first Lieutenant General in the U.S. Army since George Washington. In the face of repeated defeats on the eastern front of the war, Grant had been a consistent source of good news — and good generalship — in the West. ‘I can’t spare this man,’ Lincoln said, ‘he fights.’
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Whether they produced battlefield images of the dead or daguerreotype portraits of common soldiers, […]
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