#APUSH220 I am currently rereading the Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant and I want to share a few excerpts in which Grant offers his perspective on several important topics:
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Grant’s thoughts on the southern mindset heading into the war:
Poor whites were duped by old, rich demogogues into supporting secession…
… and the South truly thought the North was both 1) aggressively oppressive and 2) too cowardly to fight.
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Poor whites were duped by old, rich demogogues into supporting secession…
… and the South truly thought the North was both 1) aggressively oppressive and 2) too cowardly to fight.
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More from Grant during Shiloh.
Particularly liked this quote. It could be applied to a lot of situations:
"The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.”
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Particularly liked this quote. It could be applied to a lot of situations:
"The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.”
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Another interaction with a Southern civilian during the Vicksburg campaign.
Can you believe the gall of this factory owner?
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Can you believe the gall of this factory owner?
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The Confederates used "explosive musket-balls” during the Siege of Vicksburg?!
Grant said they were largely ineffective but “barbarous.”
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Grant said they were largely ineffective but “barbarous.”
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Grant emphasized the Union was successful at Vicksburg against an enemy…
-fighting on their “own ground"
-with larger numbers (>60K CSA to 43K USA)
-and superior weapons
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-fighting on their “own ground"
-with larger numbers (>60K CSA to 43K USA)
-and superior weapons
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Grant’s thoughts here on Reconstruction are really something. African-American suffrage was necessary mostly to check President Johnson and the intransigent South?!
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I’ll end this thread with a request for you to read Grant’s conclusion yourself. It has his final thoughts on the war and his predictions for the future of the United States.
These memoirs were finished one week before his death.
https://www.bartleby.com/1011/101.html
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These memoirs were finished one week before his death.
https://www.bartleby.com/1011/101.html
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