GDG- Re: Lincoln and Meade

[Biggsk at aol.com]

Chet writes:

>>> Certainly, Grant, when he was named commanding  general of the Union 
armies the following spring, was given the option of  removing Meade, but he chose 
to keep him in command for his strengths far  outweighed his shortcomings, as 
Grant diplomatically states in his  memoirs.>>>
 
Grant was in overall command of the Union Army in 1864 and chose to ride  
with the Army of the Potomac for the 1864 campaign rather than sit in Washington  
basically.
 
His compatriot, William Sherman, did the same thing.  He was commander  of 
the Military Division of the Mississippi, the largest Union department ever  in 
the war which covered every Union soldier from the Appalachian Mountains  
through the Trans-Miss basically, and Sherman also chose to ride with three of  
his armies to take Atlanta rather than sit in the rear.  He had trusted  
subordinates to handle his various districts while he was operating in  Georgia.
 
Greg Biggs

 
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