Mr. Lincoln’s General, U.S. Grant: An Illustrated Biography
By Roy Meredith
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“GENERAL ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT, like Sherman, Sheridan, McPherson, Porter, Farragut, and a few others, was one of that small but excellent school of military and naval officers who made up the hard core of the Army and Navy during the Civil War. Their firm, practical grasp of their calling set them distinctly apart from the wire-pullers, glory-seekers, incompetents, and self-seeking political generals, who, having little or no military talent, resorted to cupidity, bluff, and undercover politics to further their personal ambitions.
“Charles Anderson Dana, Assistant Secretary of War in Mr. Lincoln’s Cabinet, took particular notice of this when he visited General Grant’s headquarters sometime after the Battle of Shiloh. He mentioned the names of three remarkable men, whose lack of guile and of jealousy and whose devotion to duty above personal ambition made a great impression on his mind. Grant, Sherman, and McPherson, “in their unpretending simplicity,” he wrote, “were alike as three peas”
“In contrast to today’s popular conception of General Grant as soldier and President is the simple fact that General Grant was indeed one of America’s greatest soldiers; a punctilious gentleman of scrupulous honesty and quiet and profound ability.”
Roy Meredith
Roy Meredith (1908-1984) was an American writer and television producer. He was the author of some dozen books, including Mr. Lincoln’s Camera Man: Matthew B. Brady (1946) and The Face of Robert E. Lee in Life and Legend. He also wrote books about Fort Sumter and Andersonville, the Confederate prisoner- of-war camp. He produced a television film series on the Civil War. Meredith resided in Brooklyn, New York, where he died of a heart attack at Victory Memorial Hospital on January 5, 1984, aged 70.
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