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#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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Here is Grant's take on Texas annexation:
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Grant thought eventually Southerners will question how their ancestors could do what they did.
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Why did the South secede? According to Grant, it would be the "exact truth" if...
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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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Sherman had quite a day at Shiloh.
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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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An interaction with Southern civilians just before the Vicksburg campaign.
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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 explains why "the South was more to be benefited by its defeat than the North.”
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Grant describes the men who foraged during Sherman’s march through Georgia.
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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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