...inestimable service you have done." He had, he wrote, doubted Grant's strategy throughout and now wished "to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong." This remarkable letter left Grant incapable of replying. Modesty halted his pen. Three weeks later...

...Lincoln, "I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When...thought you should go down the river and join General [NP] Banks; and when you turned northward east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish...

...have done the country." After commenting on the fruitless efforts in the bayous, the President said: When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf,...acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Grant's reply was carried to Washington by Rawlins, with reports of the campaign, as well as rolls...

...country. ... I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you...make the personal acknowledgment that you were right as I was wrong." Lincoln finally had a major event to celebrate. 'The Father of Waters again goes unvexed...

...below; and I never had any faith, except in a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When...vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join Gen. Banks; and when you turned Northward East of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish...

...below; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you...vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join Gen. Banks; and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now...

...confessed that he had doubted Grant's strategy in approaching the city from the south, and then wrote, "I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong." Unlike George Meade, who regularly called councils of war to gain the advice of his generals, Lincoln...

...below; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When...vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join Gen. Banks; and when you turned Northward East of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish...

...questioned Grant's strategy, as he had done with so many other generals before. He closed with these words: "I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong." Lincoln had at last found a general he could respect.12 TURNING GRANT LOOSE The advance of Union armies...

...the country." l,ater in the same note, Lincoln commented, "When you got below, and took Port-Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join Gen. Banks; and when yon turned Northward East of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish...