He had several times been recommended for a brigadier-generalcy for gallant and meritorious conduct.
2
I was not aware of the reasons for this course, and therefore strongly recommended him for a major-generalcy.
3
The lieutenant-generalcy conferred on Winfield Scott after the Mexican War was a special brevet title of honor, that rank not existing in our army.
4
This confirmed him; and soon after I recommended him for a brigadier-generalcy in the regular army, and it was given to him for this victory.
5
Meanwhile, Grant, elevated to a lieutenant-generalcy, had been transferred to the Potomac frontier; and men, money, supplies-withoutstint or limit-had been placed at his disposal.
6
Two-thirds of the Captain-Generalcy, in a word, were free.
7
That expectation and that hope remained uppermost in my mind until the Lieutenant-Generalcy bill was introduced into Congress in the winter of 1863-4.
8
"That performance gave me a Major-Generalcy, and my saddle cloth there, was sent from Baltimore as a reward, by a lady whom I never knew."