Ulysses S. Grant, 1861-1864: His Rise from Obscurity to Military GreatnessMcFarland, 2014 M07 15 - 324 páginas On May 3, 1861, Illinois Governor Richard Yates appointed a Mexican War veteran with Democratic sympathies and southern ties to be chief mustering officer at Camp Yates in Springfield. And so began Ulysses S. Grant's reluctantly revived military career. Over the next three years, Grant would have a chance to display a myriad of talents few suspected, including a remarkable penchant for organization, decided skill at written communication and a quick understanding of military potential. By March 1864, Grant had risen to lieutenant general, a rank last held by George Washington. This biography details the three years which saw Ulysses S. Grant's extraordinary rise from mediocre shop clerk to general-in-chief of the U.S. Army. Beginning with Grant's work at his family's leather shop in Galena, Illinois, it records his re-entry into a military life as a volunteer from Illinois. Grant's most spectacular campaigns, including Vicksburg and Chattanooga, are discussed in depth. Special emphasis is placed on events such as politicking, rumors, and intrigue which took place between the various battles. Other topics include Grant's personal qualities and background, his extraordinary good fortune and the general's informal and unorthodox command style. The work is indexed. |
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... Washburne and attorney John Rawlins. These men would play indispensable roles in Grant's resurrected military career. Good luck not only applied to Grant's military life, but to external circumstances as well. To repeat, the American ...
... Washburne, a strong Lincoln man, opponent of slavery, and the embodiment of everything that the South feared and loathed in Yankee politicians. Thanks to the recent election of Lincoln as President, Washburne now found himself in a ...
... Washburne and Yates foresaw that a successful Northern war e›ort had to be bipartisan, and Grant became an early beneficiary of this foresight. In addition to having a mother with strong Democratic sympathies— though not so his father ...
... Washburne's right-hand man John E. Smith (the same who criticized Grant's business acumen)—Grant being the only bona fide veteran in town.31 The momentousness and unlikelihood of this nomination, coming as it did from such unexpected ...
... Washburne expressed “surprise that Galena could not furnish a presiding o‡cer for such an occasion without taking a stranger.”33 In reality, though Grant apparently never got to the bottom of the source, it may well have been that Washburne ...
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Florida Missouri | 33 |
Brigadier General Grant | 40 |
Paducah Kentucky | 47 |
Calm Before the Storm | 54 |
The Most Anxious Period of the War | 127 |
Acoustic Shadow at Iuka | 132 |
The Battle of Corinth | 139 |
The First Vicksburg Campaign | 146 |
The Beginning of Total War | 153 |
The Second Vicksburg Campaign | 161 |
Steele Bayou Expedition | 175 |
Champion Hill | 190 |
Belmont Missouri | 61 |
Winter Quarters | 69 |
Cairo Dogs of War | 76 |
Fort Donelson | 83 |
Americas Most Wanted Man | 91 |
Shiloh | 98 |
Disgrace | 106 |
The Occupation of Memphis | 112 |
Reunited with Family | 119 |
MajorGeneral Grant | 210 |
New Orleans | 223 |
Missionary Ridge | 239 |
Celebrity in St Louis | 256 |
LieutenantGeneral Grant | 271 |
Notes | 285 |
Bibliography | 309 |
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Ulysses S. Grant, 1861-1864: His Rise from Obscurity to Military Greatness William Farina Vista previa limitada - 2007 |
Ulysses S. Grant, 1861-1864: His Rise from Obscurity to Military Greatness William Farina Vista de fragmentos - 2007 |