- Joined
- Feb 20, 2005
- Location
- Near Kankakee
Digging up old stuff, but William42 became glorybound."I have heard, in such way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the Army and the Government needed a Dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes, can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship."
Lincoln's letter to Joseph Hooker giving him command of the Army of the Potomac, Jan. 26, 1863