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Gustave Koerner claimed that if it had “not been for the most strenuous efforts of Washburne, who stood very high at Washington, … there is no doubt but Grant would have been deprived of his command.” Two years later, Washburne told Grant that “when the torrent of obloquy and detraction was rolling over you, and your friends, after the battle of Shiloh, Mr. Lincoln stood like a wall of fire between you and it, uninfluenced by the threats of Congressmen and the demands of insolent cowardice.”
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