Comments on: Ulysses S. Grant http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/04/ulysses-s-grant/ Exposing the ugly truths about the Bush Administration. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:44:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: Joe Handelmahr http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/04/ulysses-s-grant/#comment-545637 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:33:21 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/04/ulysses-s-grant/#comment-545637 Grant and Lee both spent many months together working in different companies during the Mexican/American War. Its very probably that these two great generals of latter days would have met and known one another. Imagine fighting the battle of all ages, over the fate of you're country (Civil War), and your opponent being a guy you had once fought side-by-side with!! History is never necessarily correct. Or I guess some of the pertinent facts just get eliminated. P.S. I also read on some other blog that Grant and Lee were in California early 1850's and could of met each other then, too. Thanks for the great blog site. Grant and Lee both spent many months together working in different companies during the Mexican/American War. Its very probably that these two great generals of latter days would have met and known one another. Imagine fighting the battle of all ages, over the fate of you’re country (Civil War), and your opponent being a guy you had once fought side-by-side with!!

History is never necessarily correct. Or I guess some of the pertinent facts just get eliminated. P.S. I also read on some other blog that Grant and Lee were in California early 1850’s and could of met each other then, too. Thanks for the great blog site.

]]> by: a517dogg http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/04/ulysses-s-grant/#comment-221222 Wed, 30 May 2007 02:14:05 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/04/ulysses-s-grant/#comment-221222 Lexington Green of the blog "Chicagoboyz" agrees with you re: Grant. It's probably the only thing you two would agree on. http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/002743.html Lexington Green of the blog “Chicagoboyz” agrees with you re: Grant. It’s probably the only thing you two would agree on.

http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/002743.html

]]> by: ET http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/04/ulysses-s-grant/#comment-62964 Thu, 28 Dec 2006 16:18:08 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/04/ulysses-s-grant/#comment-62964 I remember reading and article about revitalizing Gettysburg as a national park, and they talked about how the South seems to have generally won the post-war PR war even if the North won the actual war. I think Grant was a victim of this PR war that tried to make the south the more noble participant in the Civil War (War or Northern Agression, War Between the States, The Recent Unpleasantness). I remember reading and article about revitalizing Gettysburg as a national park, and they talked about how the South seems to have generally won the post-war PR war even if the North won the actual war. I think Grant was a victim of this PR war that tried to make the south the more noble participant in the Civil War (War or Northern Agression, War Between the States, The Recent Unpleasantness).

]]> by: 3catsdad http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/04/ulysses-s-grant/#comment-62516 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:17:44 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/04/ulysses-s-grant/#comment-62516 a tribute to his resolution (and Lincoln's) that he finally brought the war to a victorious conclusion. Remember, too, that he both promoted Sherman and Sheridan, and approved Sherman's incredibly bold plan to cut loose from his supply lines and Hood's crippled army and march to the sea, trashing what was left of the Confederacy's war economy and morale. Grant did what Lincoln had tried to do from day one- get the whole armed forces of the nation moving offensively all at once, never letting up, and the South couldn't stand that. a tribute to his resolution (and Lincoln’s) that he finally brought the war to a victorious conclusion. Remember, too, that he both promoted Sherman and Sheridan, and approved Sherman’s incredibly bold plan to cut loose from his supply lines and Hood’s crippled army and march to the sea, trashing what was left of the Confederacy’s war economy and morale. Grant did what Lincoln had tried to do from day one- get the whole armed forces of the nation moving offensively all at once, never letting up, and the South couldn’t stand that.

]]> by: 3catsdad http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/04/ulysses-s-grant/#comment-62514 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:07:25 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/04/ulysses-s-grant/#comment-62514 Please go and read Bruce Catton's "Grant Takes Command", in which he demolished the myth of Grant the butcher who just used numbers to beat down Lee- in short, not until the very end of the war could Grant get his orders carried out in the speedy, determined fashion that would allow them to work out; between political generals (Sigel, Butler etc.) and a command structure in the Army of the Potomac that never did anything at full speed or full strength, plus an army demoralized by 3-year enlistments ending and bounty-jumpers and conscripts for replacements, it was Please go and read Bruce Catton’s “Grant Takes Command”, in which he demolished the myth of Grant the butcher who just used numbers to beat down Lee- in short, not until the very end of the war could Grant get his orders carried out in the speedy, determined fashion that would allow them to work out; between political generals (Sigel, Butler etc.) and a command structure in the Army of the Potomac that never did anything at full speed or full strength, plus an army demoralized by 3-year enlistments ending and bounty-jumpers and conscripts for replacements, it was

]]> by: G Stephens http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/04/ulysses-s-grant/#comment-62224 Tue, 26 Dec 2006 23:43:36 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/04/ulysses-s-grant/#comment-62224 For what little it is worth, I think that Sherman was a better general than Grant or Lee. There is a chapter on his exploits in Liddel-Hart's classic book "Strategy" that started me in thinking that way-- since then, I've just become more convinced. Sherman's maneuvers after his March to the Sea brought him so close to Richmond that Lee was forced to abandon Petersburg, with the resultant capture of his army at Appomattox. For what little it is worth, I think that Sherman was a better general than Grant or Lee. There is a chapter on his exploits in Liddel-Hart’s classic book “Strategy” that started me in thinking that way– since then, I’ve just become more convinced. Sherman’s maneuvers after his March to the Sea brought him so close to Richmond that Lee was forced to abandon Petersburg, with the resultant capture of his army at Appomattox.

]]> by: The Mahablog » Foner: W “Worst President Ever” http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/04/ulysses-s-grant/#comment-52860 Sat, 02 Dec 2006 20:44:38 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/04/ulysses-s-grant/#comment-52860 [...] Foner has been around the block enough times to know that historians — and the public — change their minds. Warren Harding enjoyed wide popularity when he died in office in 1923. It wasn’t until after his death the stories came out — about Teapot Dome (which wasn’t Harding’s doing), and Harding’s predilection for keeping mistresses hidden in White House closets. On the other hand, Ulysses S. Grant’s presidential record and reputation continue to be unfairly trashed, but in recent years some historians have reconsidered his administration and have given him an upgrade. [...] […] Foner has been around the block enough times to know that historians — and the public — change their minds. Warren Harding enjoyed wide popularity when he died in office in 1923. It wasn’t until after his death the stories came out — about Teapot Dome (which wasn’t Harding’s doing), and Harding’s predilection for keeping mistresses hidden in White House closets. On the other hand, Ulysses S. Grant’s presidential record and reputation continue to be unfairly trashed, but in recent years some historians have reconsidered his administration and have given him an upgrade. […]

]]> by: maha http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/04/ulysses-s-grant/#comment-18334 Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:30:21 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/04/ulysses-s-grant/#comment-18334 <i>I know far too many drunks in happy marriages to let an assertion like that slide.</i> I doubt the drunks' spouses and children are all that happy. I know far too many drunks in happy marriages to let an assertion like that slide.

I doubt the drunks’ spouses and children are all that happy.

]]> by: Buddy Toledo http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/04/ulysses-s-grant/#comment-18329 Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:00:45 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/04/ulysses-s-grant/#comment-18329 I know far too many drunks in happy marriages to let an assertion like that slide. I know far too many drunks in happy marriages to let an assertion like that slide.

]]> by: maha http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/04/ulysses-s-grant/#comment-18277 Wed, 05 Jul 2006 19:59:56 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/04/ulysses-s-grant/#comment-18277 <i>Well apart from having read more than a 1000 books on military history, publishing a score of lengthy articles, being an editor at a military history magazine, designing 15 published war games (many of them award-winners) and having a book about to come out on WWI, not much, no.</i> If you say so, but I cannot take anyone seriously as a military historian who says stuff like "I’d say the greatest general in American history would be Washington." He was a great leader, yes, but a great general? Not so much. He was a <i>good enough</i> general, I'd say. So whatever you say your credentials are, you just blew your credibility with <i>me</i>. Well apart from having read more than a 1000 books on military history, publishing a score of lengthy articles, being an editor at a military history magazine, designing 15 published war games (many of them award-winners) and having a book about to come out on WWI, not much, no.

If you say so, but I cannot take anyone seriously as a military historian who says stuff like “I’d say the greatest general in American history would be Washington.” He was a great leader, yes, but a great general? Not so much. He was a good enough general, I’d say.

So whatever you say your credentials are, you just blew your credibility with me.

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