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Title: Redeeming the republic : the third period of the war of the rebellion, in the year 1864
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896
Subjects: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896
Publisher: New York : Harper & Bros.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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throughout the country was " On to Richmond ! General McClellan
moved down the Potomac and up to Yorktown and the Peninsula to lay
siege to the city. In the estimation of General Grant, Richmond was of
small account. He would plan his campaigns to strike the Confederate
armies east and west at the same time.
General Grant entered the Cabinet-room in the White House, and for
the first time in his life met President Lincoln. The members of the
March 9, 1864
Cabinet had assembled. General Halleck, to whom Grant
had been a subordinate, was there; also Mr. E. B. Washburne,
of Galena, member of Congress, who had been instrumental in securing
General Grant's appointment as lieutenant-general. Two of his staff and
his eldest son accompanied him. It was a memorable scene, during the
War of the Revolution, when President Washington received his commis-
sion as Commander of the Continental Army; and equally impressive
this, in which the President of the people, born in a slave State, unedu-
cated in the schools, who had issued the proclamation abolishing slavery,
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LIEUTENANT-GENERAL GRANT RECEIVING HIS COMMISSION

THE GREAT COMMANDER. 71
presented to this man, who when the war began was an obscure clerk
selling leather, his commission as commander of a million men in arms.
These the words of the President: " General Grant, the nations apprecia-
tion of what you have done, and its reliance upon you for what remains to
be done in the existing struggle, are now presented with this commis-
sion constituting you lieutenant-general in the army of the United States.
With this high honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsi-
bility. As the country herein trusts you, so, under God, it will sustain
you. I scarcely need add that with what I here speak for the nation goes
my own hearty personal concurrence." The words fell from trembling
lips, so deep the feeling of the President.
This the reply: " Mr. President, I accept the commission, with grat-
itude for the high honor conferred. With the aid of the noble armies
that have fought in so many fields for our common country, it will be my
earnest endeavor not to disappoint your expectation. I feel the full re-
sponsibilities now devolving on me ; and I know that if they are met it
will be due to those armies, and, above all, to the favor of that Providence
which leads nations and men."(¹)

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