President Lincoln had to look to the west to find qualified leadership for the Union Army. From Ohio he found both Grant and Sherman. Grant was 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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Hey James,
My name is WIll Conway, and I blog at regardingliberty.blogspot.com. I just launched BigBoomBloggers.blogspot.com, which is a current events/politics team blog. I read your blog every so often, and I was interested in having you join the team. All it requires is reposting one of your daily posts a day over at big boom bloggers and linking back to your blog. We are recruiting some big names, including Dan Riehl of Riehl World View, and this would certainly help your traffic. Let me know if you want to join.
Will Conway
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