Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Grant, Ulysses S
• David S. Nolen
• John F. Marszalek
• Louie P. Gallo

Titel

The End of the War—The March to Washington—One of Lincoln’s Anecdotes—Grand Review at Washington—Characteristics of Lincoln and Stanton—Estimate of the Different Corps Commanders

Ist Teil von

• The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, 2017, p.747-755

Auflage

Originally published 2017

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Things began to quiet down, and as the certainty that there would be no more armed resistance became clearer, the troops in North Carolina and Virginia were ordered to march immediately to the capital, and go into camp there until mustered out.¹ Suitable garrisons were left at the prominent places throughout the South to insure obedience to the laws that might be enacted for the government of the several States, and to insure security to the lives and property of all classes. I do not know how far this was necessary, but I deemed it necessary, at that time, that