Claiborne Fox Jackson

We have not produced a Napoleon, and military talents of greater brilliancy than Grant's fought on both sides.

Purely as captains, Lee, Jackson, Sherman, Thomas, if not others, are likely to stand higher.

While Sheridan, during his brief opportunity, proved such a thunderbolt that, did history know men by their promise instead of by their fruits, he might outshine the whole company and rank with Charles of Sweden or Condé.

Yet Grant sits above and apart.

While mustering, he had a few idle days to wait, and finding himself near St. Louis, waited there.

The town was a pot of conspiracy.

Claiborne Jackson, the governor, with a union mask on, was stealing troops and arms for secession.

Francis Blair and Nathaniel Lyon, two most competent patriots, watched him through his mask.