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Updated: May 28, 2025
It is not by any means the least of Grant's claims to real greatness that, as a leader, he was able to survive his most searching trials: the surprise at Shiloh, the misunderstandings and arrest that followed Shiloh, the slur of being made a fifth-wheel second-in-command, the demoralizing strain of that "most anxious period of the war" when his depleted forces were thrown back on the defensive, and the eight discouraging months of Sisyphean offensive which preceded his triumph at Vicksburg.
"Do you mean just in the supplementary sense of the term?" "Well, not in the fifth-wheel sense. I mean that he supplements us, all and singular if you will excuse the legal exactness." "Oh, certainly," said Sewell; "I should like even more exactness." "Yes; but before I particularise I must express my general satisfaction in him as a man-body.
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