On this date in 1864

[Bull Snipe]

President Abraham Lincoln promotes Major General Ulysses S. Grant to the rank of Lieutenant General. As such, Grant will command the 860,000 men of the Union Army.

[Vigilanteman]

I apologize because I looked it up. Thaddeus Steven's steel works were in Franklin County, much closer to present day Chambersburg than Pittsburgh. Sorry.

Pittsburgh did not have a well developed steel industry until some years later.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

While your statement is generally accurate, in Grant’s case, he was weirdly effective.

From the time Grant began the Overland Campaign, I believe it was 9 weeks until Lee was essentially bottled up in Petersburg and reduced to delaying the inevitable.