You said of this general, "I can't spare this man--he fights"; he sure seems to be enjoying the green room, it's...
Largely self-educated, he became a lawyer in Illinois, a Whig Party leader, 
and... [DOC] [TLE] Ulysses S. Grant | HistoryNet [PAR] At the end of July he was made a brigadier general of volunteers, to date from 
May 17.