The Confederate Diary of Mary Boykin Chestnut

This is one of those moments i was thinking, you know, why? Why was it in the west that somebody like grant was at least able to have enough sort of space and opportunity to be able to command. And actually just came back to lincoln. I mean, imagine if the president wasn't lincoln, but one of so many people in the union, among the union alites,. were very, at best, agnostic about how badly they really wanted to defeat the south.