If I had sought the place, or obtained it through personal or political influence, my believe is that I would have feared to undertake any plan of my own conception, and would probably have awaited direct orders from my distant superiors. I having been selected, my responsibility ended with my doing the best I knew how. “He should not be embarrassed in making his selections. “In time of war the President, being by the Constitution Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, is responsible for the selection of commanders,” wrote Grant in his memoirs. I have no personal feeling about it but I know he is an ass.'”īetween President Lincoln and General Grant was a mutual appreciation society of the difficulties presented by their respected positions. The editor of the Cincinnati Gazette wrote, ‘Our noble army of the Mississippi is being wasted by the foolish, drunken, stupid Grant, He cannot organize or control or fight an army. The criticisms came in the form of letters, newspaper editorials, and delegations of irate citizens calling on Lincoln in person. “Although he heard nothing from Grant,” wrote Duane Schultz in The Most Glorious Fourth, President Lincoln “continued to receive complaints about Grant and demands that he be dismissed. Grant advises me that he will take Vicksburg by the Fourth of July, and I believe he will do it and he shall have the chance.” 1 Lincoln later said: “To show to what extent this sentiment prevails, even Washburne, who has always claimed Grant as his by right of discovery, has deserted him, and demands his removal and I really believe I am the only friend Grant has left. In the spring of 1863, Senator Benjamin Wade came to see the President and insisted that the American people demanded that he dismiss Grant because the campaign to take Vicksburg had bogged down. In the spring of 1862, there were many calls for the replacement of Grant. President Lincoln had faith in Ulysses S. Grant writing a telegram that the Army had crossed Rapidan 1864
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