July 27, 1865---"Little more than a first-rate clerk."

JULY 27, 1865:                    

General Henry “Old Brains” Halleck is appointed to lead the new Military District of The Pacific. A timid combat commander, once U.S. General-in-Chief and then Army Chief of Staff, Halleck’s transfer to the far west effectively rids Grant and the Administration of the man President Lincoln once described as “little more than a first-rate clerk.”