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At the outbreak of war, he was the long-serving General-in-Chief of the United States armies.

Although clearly far too old for command by this time, he was one of the very few men on either side who realised it would be a long war of attrition. His plan for blockading the South was ridiculed as far too slow. But in the end, the North did follow a plan very similar.

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