Many of the volunteers, as already indicated, rose to the command of divisions, a few to the command of corps, and in some marked instances to the command of separate armies and to the military direction of vast districts.
Blaine discusses how many volunteers rose to significant military commands during the war.
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That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
In turn, the course of the National Administration would certainly be influenced, and its fate in large degree determined, by the conduct of the Southern men, in whom the President was placing unbounded trust.
It is to the eminent credit of the Republican members of Congress that they stood in a crisis of this magnitude true to principle, firm against all the power and all the patronage of the Administration.
Their success as civil magistrates, as legislators, as executives was not less marked and meritorious than their illustrious service in war.
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