It was a girl and her name was Dorothea Dix
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Head of the Union Army Nurse Corps during the Civil War, she was an activist for indigent (poor) people that were mentally ill, and helped create the first of the mental asylums in the US.
She served the U.S army in south Carolina as a nurse, scout, spy, and soldier.
As army commander, U.S. Grant. He was reporting to the Union General-in-Chief, Henry Halleck.
Ulysses Grant - from March 1864 till the end of the war.
he was commanding the union army