“There is still a lot of trouble brewing up out there,” Grant said, his words echoing Sherman’s thoughts. “Do you think that those people, all those Europeans with their frictions and feuds and long memories of war and revolution — do you think that they can keep the lid on all their troubles?”
“I certainly hope that they can.”
“Haven’t done too well in the past, have they?”
“Indeed they haven’t. But perhaps they will do better in the future.” Sherman drained his glass, put it down on the table beside him. “Still, they will have to be watched. My appointment by the President was to keep America free. We have all traveled a long and bitter road to assure that freedom. Our country must not be threatened ever again. Nor will it ever be, not while I have a breath in my body.”
“I am with you there, Cumph, we all are. Peace is our aim — but war is our trade. We don’t want it. But if it comes we can lick it.”
“That we surely can. Good night, Ulysses. Sleep well.”
“We all shall sleep well. Now.”
SUMMER — 1865
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Abraham Lincoln President of the United States
William H. Seward Secretary of State
Edwin M. Stanton Secretary of War
Gideon Welles Secretary of the Navy
Salmon P. Chase Secretary of the Treasury
Gustavus Fox Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Judah P. Benjamin Secretary for the South
John Nicolay First Secretary to President Lincoln
John Hay Secretary to President Lincoln
William Parker Parrott Gunsmith
John Ericsson Inventor of USS Monitor
UNITED STATES ARMY
General William Tecumseh Sherman
General Ulysses S. Grant
General Ramsay Head of Ordinance Department
General Robert E. Lee
General Thomas Francis Meagher Commander of the Irish Brigade
Colonel Andy Summers
UNITED STATES NAVY
Captain Schofield Captain of USS Avenger
Admiral David Glasgow Farragut Naval Commander in Chief
Captain Raphael Semmes Captain of USS Virginia
Captain Sanborn Captain of USS Pennsylvania
Captain Dodge Captain of USS Thunderer
Captain Curtin Captain of USS Atlas
Captain Van Horn Captain of USS Devastation
Commander William Wilson Second Officer of USS Dictator
GREAT BRITAIN
Victoria Regina Queen of Great Britain and Ireland
Lord Palmerston Prime Minister
Lord John Russell Foreign Secretary/Prime Minister
William Gladstone Chancellor of the Exchequer
Benjamin Disraeli Leader of the Opposition
John Stuart Mill
BRITISH ARMY
Duke of Cambridge Commander in Chief
Brigadier Somerville the Duke’s Aide
General Bagnall
General Sir William Armstrong Commander in Chief of Her Majesty’s Forces in India
BRITISH NAVY
Admiral Spencer
Lieutenant Archibald Fowler Lieutenant HMS Defender
BELGIUM
Ambassador Pierce American Ambassador to Belgium
Leopold King of Belgium
Baron Surlet de Chokier Belgian Foreign Minister
IRELAND
Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa President of the Republic of Ireland
Isaac Butt Vice-President of the Republic of Ireland
Ambassador O’Brin Irish Ambassador to the United States of America
Thomas McGrath Irish Intern in Birmingham
Patrick McDermott Irish Intern in Birmingham
RUSSIA
Admiral Paul S. Makhimov Admiral Russian Navy
Count Alexander Igoreivich Korzhenevski Captain of the Aurora
Lieutenant Simenov First Engineer of Aurora
SCOTLAND
General McGregor Commander in Chief of Her Majesty’s Forces in Scotland
Mr. MacLaren of the Highland Council
Robert Dalglish Chairman of the National Party of Scotland
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