Posted on 04/27/2022 9:57:50 AM PDT by Borges
There is nothing stranger in American history than the up-and-down reputation of Ulysses S. Grant.
Grant, who was born April 27, 1822, was the commanding general who ended the Civil War. He managed the great campaigns that captured Vicksburg and Richmond, saved Chattanooga, and compelled the surrender of Robert E. Lee and the main Confederate field army, and did it so well that President Abraham Lincoln apologized for not showing him enough confidence. Grant’s “Personal Memoirs,” published after he died in 1885, are a landmark of 19th-century American prose.
Grant may be a greater example even than Lincoln of the American rags-to-riches story. In 1861 he was working in his father’s leather-goods store in Galena, Ill. Three years later, he was general-in-chief of U.S. forces. Four years after that, he was elected president.
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And had spent the years prior to that defeating every rebel general set up against him. When the Confederacy had plenty of men.
He had huge advantages over Lee once he took over and frequently threw mens lives away.
He did what he had to in order to win. As did Lee, who had no concern for casualties himself.
And Shiloh? Grant should have been fired and court-martialed for his buffoonery, laziness and sheer dishonesty.
I notice you didn't mention the 'winning the battle' part.
+1
So the KKK was very concerned about Black Lives Mattering?
Sounds backwards.
Seems like John Brown and his attempted insurrection raid is more like BLM and Antifa.
Secession is not unconstitutional and therefore not treason.
The well known military strategist. Your choice of sources is as eccentric as ever.
What would he have done without all those ships to ferry his troops?
It's a lot easier to do things when you have massive advantages over your enemy.
Mary Todd Lincoln - the voice of rational thought.
Finally someone who grasps the reality of what happened.
Blah, blah, blah. Having chosen to start the war the South alone is responsible for all the death and destruction and misery that it brought to them.
I have often wondered what the war’s outcome would have been if Lee hadn’t fell into the Gettysburg trap?
His generals urged him to ignore Meade at Gettysburg and continue to Washington, D.C.
Lee fought on defense after the battle.
What an impressive, thoughtful battlefield memorial the Gettysburg Park is. Stunning place and the interpretive center is first rate.
I guess I’m a Patton guy.
It's population was four times larger, so that 10% would be equivalent to 40% for the South, (In numbers of men) wouldn't it?
“The Constitution would not have been ratified if James Madison, who was unequaled in among delegates for scholarship of political organizations, had not with others supported positions that states retained sufficient sovereignty to secede as the last resort to a political impasse created by perceived usurpations or abuses of the federal government. This point was further emphasized by the fact the perpetual relationship language binding the colonies and colonists in the Articles of Confederation did not carry over into the Constitution.”
James Madison, Secession, & State Sovereignty
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.war.civil.usa/p5V_C8Hm8yw
You just don't like it because it contradicts your narrative.
So you attack the person and not the argument?
Newspapers and other Union officers were saying the same thing, but let's make it about Mary.
Reminds me of another point. If Lincoln was doing God's work, why was his own personal life so filled with tragedy?
Blah, blah, blah, having continuously repeated the fake assertion that the South started the war, you simply go onward from that false premise.
Lincoln sent warships. Warships started the war.
What the South did was threaten the money streams of the Rich, Powerful, Arrogant ruling class that controlled Washington DC, (and that same arrogant elite control it today) and they launched a war against the South to protect their finances.
And don't forget, they offered the South permanent slavery before they launched their war to protect their own money streams.
+1.
Although 30 years later, Madison was against secession.
Hardly. When the facts contradict my narrative, I change my narrative.
As John Maynard Keynes said to a critic:
"When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do sir?"
I suppose, but as an ancestral Southerner , I do not appreciate what Grant did to us . Not one bit. Sherman too. Where were the Whitworths when & where we needed them?
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