Old Buch and Grant

[Klink]

Colonel Robert C Buchanan, the highly respected Regular Officer, asked for and received Grant's resignation in '53 over the drinking issue at Fort Humboldt. Though a brigadier general of Volunteers his career stalled out at colonel in the Regular Army.

Were Old Buck's promotional opportunities stifled by Sam Grant?

 

[jenkingish]

Buchanan was involved in the Peninsula Campaign, Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredricksburg. He was nominated for promotion to Brig. General of the Reg. Army, in 1864 I believe. However, the Senate sat on the nomination doing nothing with it. Though Grant and Buchanan had dealings in the past, I was under the assumption that it was Buchanan's ties to Fitz John Porter and McCellan that led the Senate to "ignore" the nomination.