Erasmus D. Keyes
Erasmus Darwin Keyes (May 29, 1810 – October 14, 1895) was an American businessman, banker, and military general, noted for leading the IV Corps of the Union Army of the Potomac during the first half of the American Civil War.
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[edit]- During forty years before the rebellion it was an axiom with the War Department that no officer was fit to command an army who was not of Southern birth. My loud dissent from that assumed axiom was considered a sure indication of folly and in competency. I refer to myself simply as an exponent of a state of things that naturally grew out of the institution of slavery.
