Posted on 03/09/2019 9:43:37 AM PST by Bull Snipe
Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant is appointed Supreme Commander of all Union Armies by President Abraham Lincoln.
Currently reading “Grant” by Ron Chernow...I’m Southern Born and Southern bred - and this book has given me more a lot more respect him. It’s a great read.
“This man fights!”
Thanks, I’ll check it out. I read William T. Shermans autobiography a long time ago and what I found interesting is he called the Confederates “Democrats”, for example “We went over the hill and found the Democrats ready for battle” Doh! Speaking of Grant I visited Grants tomb a few years ago in Manhattan and it was very moving. You walk in there and there’s one security guard sitting at a desk which is probably how it’s been since the late 1890s, and right there in the center you look down and there is him and his wife laying right next to each other in separate cement coffins, tombs, whatever they call it.
One of the best men to ever hold the office. He was surrounded by grifters, but he was not the cause and not in it.
He was deeply into the idea of bringing the south back into the fold and healing America. There is a reason regular people everywhere loved him so much.
Its sickening to see people always list him among the worst presidents, and then to see who they think were the best ones.
Unfortunately for Gen Grant and the Union side he served under self serving political Generals that suppress his battle field wins and attempted to take the glory for those wins on the battle field for them selves, and back stabbed Gen Grant. Fortunately for Gen Grant, Lincoln eventually seeing through those lies of his worthless generals on the western front and promoted the fighters like Gen Grant.
Yeah - He was prone to con-artists. Much more the pity - reduced to writing his memoirs to support his family - and then dying.
Here is the newspaper for March 10, 1864 which would have the news from the previous day (bearing in mind that a lot was happening and communication was often slow).
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030213/1864-03-10/ed-1/
Halleck seems to have had in for Grant, when he was Grant’s superior in the Western theater.
President Abraham Lincoln once described him as “little more than a first rate clerk.”
I had a great aunt from Missouri who hated some of her neighbors. When I asked her why she told me they were damned democrats.
It turned out her grandfather (my great great grandfather) had fought for the Union and her neighbor’s relatives had fought for the Confederates.
This was in the late 1960s. Bad blood had existed for over a hundred years.
Have you been on FR long. The bad blood exists to this day. And it’s stupid.
On yeah I even participated some back in the day. But this is just a bunch of keyboard warriors and that was face to face hatred.
My dad also told me when he was in college back in the 1930s a couple of guys had a fist fight after history class because one of them committed the horrible sin of saying Lincoln was a great president.
Cite a source for that statement. MacArthur used almost the exact wording to describe Eisenhower.
Wow that is amazing! Thanks! I’m definitely bookmarking that!
RBG was born.
I think he was under Gen Buell for a brief period of time too and he gave Grant trouble too same type of garbage Halleck gave him.
That would mean Halleck, not Grant of course.
Sounds about right, that is how Lincoln used Halleck.
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