A military education was acquired which no other school could have given.

Men who thought a company was quite enough for them to command properly at the beginning, would have made good regimental or brigade commanders; most of the brigade commanders were equal to the command of a division, and one, Ransom, would have been equal to the command of a corps at least.

Logan and Crocker ended the campaign fitted to command independent armies.
General F.P.Blair joined me at Milliken's Bend a full-fledged general, without having served in a lower grade.

He commanded a division in the campaign.

I had known Blair in Missouri, where I had voted against him in 1858 when he ran for Congress.