In what year was Winfield Scott hired as a Union general by Abraham Lincoln?

Answer 1

~Lincoln didn't 'hire' him. Presidents don't hire generals.

"The Grand Old Man of the Army", "Old Fuss and Feathers" served as a general longer than anyone else in American history. He was brevetted brigadier general in 1814. He was appointed major general and general-in-chief in 1841. In 1855 he was brevetted Lt. General, the first to hold that rank since George Washington. He retired in November 1861, but not until after devising the Anaconda Plan - the strategy followed by the Federal forces until the end of the war. He held his rank and position long before Lincoln was nominated to run for president.

He was General-in-Chief of the Army at the outset of the war. He was too old to travel to the battlefields or to actively command on site, but he was in charge of all theaters of the war and all battlefield commanders. He particularly despised his new commander in the field, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, but he felt he was to old to reprimand McClellan for his increasingly insubordinate behavior. His age, McClellan's political maneuvering and pressure from congress convinced Scott to retire. McClellan succeeded him. More's the pity for Lincoln and for the Federal Army (and for the Confederacy, everything considered). McClellan continued his insubordination and continued to refuse to fight or to screw up the campaigns and battles in which he actually had the guts to engage until March, 1862, when Lincoln removed him as general-in-chief, leaving left him in command of the Army of the Potomac. He botched that too, and Lincoln removed him form command entirely on November 5, 1862. McClellan probably added at least a year and hundreds of thousands of deaths on both sides to the Civil War. Scott would have done a better job from a wheelchair in an old folk's home.

Answer 2

Your question doesn't make a lot of sense.

Scott was not hired by Lincoln; in fact, the era of "old fuss and feathers" was coming to an end as the Civil War was beginning.

Winfield Scott began his career in 1808 and left the army in 1861 (November). He had recommended to Lincoln that Robert E. Lee replace him as commander of the Union army, but Lee's allegiance to Virginia prevented him from doing so.

McClellan was the first commander of the Union Army (well, the Army of the Potomac), and that happened in 1861.

Answer 3

Old "Winnie" was already on board prior to Lincoln's Presidency.