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The Hey, everyone, welcome to episode number 478 of our Civil War podcast. I'm Rich.

And I'm Tracy. Hello, y'all. Thanks for tuning into the podcast.

In the spring of 1864, in a letter to his wife, Colonel Theodore Lyman, a member of the Army of the Ptomec's headquarters staff, wrote,

Grant is a man of a good deal of rough dignity, rather taciturn, quick and decided in speech.

Lyman also noted that Ulysses S. Grant, quote,

habitually wears an expression as if he had determined to drive his head through a brick wall

and was about to do it. Well, the colonel's assessment was more perceptive than he realized. Like

others at Army headquarters, he had surely heard the stories of Grant's struggles with alcohol

in the pre-war army and his financial difficulties as a civilian.

But beneath Grant's nondescript appearance and plain uniform lay a quiet strength and hard-boiled

competence that led Lyman to tell his wife, I have much confidence in him.

By the spring of 1864, Ulysses S. Grant was the and to tell his wife, I have much confidence in him.

By the spring of 1864, Ulysses S. Grant was the union's preeminent field commander,

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