After requesting an outrageous number of soldiers, which Union general was demoted for insanity...and then, later, reinstated?

William Tecumseh Sherman led the Union forces in Kentucky. But due to his request for 260,000 soldiers from the U.S. Secretary of War Simon Cameron, he was demoted as the general in command and deemed insane. Ulysses S. Grant later reassigned the demoted general, for which Sherman remained forever in his debt, saying the "great general" "stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk; and now, sir, we stand by each other always.”

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