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Tag Archives: U.S. Grant
Taking It Day By Day
Hindsight often obscures our understanding of how events unfolded and their results became apparent. Because we know how it went, we lose something of the immediate perspective that both sides had, not to mention the fog of war. To illustrate … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal
Tagged John C. Pemberton, U.S. Grant, Vicksburg Campaign
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The Kraken: U.S. Grant’s Grand Strategy, 1864-1865
During the Civil War era, grand strategy consisted of a strategy and a military plan.[1] Strategy in broad terms is a comprehensive idea or set of ideas that seeks to establish a lasting solution to large-scale crises. Now, strategy, in … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Leadership--Federal, Politics
Tagged Grand Strategy, military plan, strategy, U.S. Grant, W.T. Sherman
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ECW Podcast “Rudely Stamp’d” Is Now Available
It’s been called “the friendship that saved the Union.” And ECW’s Derek Maxfield and partner Tracy Ford are exploring that relationship in a new way. Chris Mackowski and Dan Welch talk with Derek and Tracy about Grant and Sherman. Don’t … Continue reading
Railroads: The B&O and the Battle of Monocacy
Eric Wittenberg has written an overview of the B&O here. The following blog post examines the B&O’s role more in depth as it pertains to the events leading up to the Battle of Monocacy. Messages kept coming across the desk … Continue reading
General Grant Loses a Resourceful Subordinate, Mentor, Role Model, and Friend
“During the war father was saddened often over the death of many who had been associates either at West Point or in the army,” Frederick Dent Grant wrote in 1899, “but I think his greatest grief, and perhaps his greatest … Continue reading
U.S. Grant Urges Iowans to Approve Suffrage for Black Men
The following was passed along by ECW’s friend William Underhill, one of the stalwart keeper’s of Ulysses S. Grant’s flame as a member of the Friends of Grant Cottage, the organization that staffs the site where Grant died in upstate … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Politics, Primary Sources, Reconstruction, Slavery
Tagged Elections, Grant Cottage, Iowa, Iowa State Weekly Register, Slaves, suffrage, U.S. Grant, Voting, William Underhill
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The Great Naval Leaders
On May 10 I lectured about the Battle of Midway to Old Dominion University’s Institute of Learning in Retirement. Over the course of a wonderful discussion, I assessed one of the U.S. commanders, Raymond Spruance, as “one of the greatest … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership--Federal, Navies, Personalities, Ties to the War, Trans-Mississippi, Western Theater
Tagged Admiral David G. Farragut, Battle of Lake Erie, Battle of Mobile Bay, Battle of Perryville, David Dixon Porter, David Farragut, David Porter, Fall of New Orleans, Fort Fisher, George Dewey, Lake Erie, Manila, Midway, Mobile Bay, Okinawa, Oliver Hazard Perry, Perryville, Philippine Sea, Raymond Spruance, Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter, Red River Campaign, U.S. Grant, U.S. Navy, Vicksburg Campaign, War of 1812, World War II
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Pontoon Bridges: The Great Crossings
Yesterday Sarah Kay Bierle looked at the ancient uses of pontoon bridges and its perspectives on the 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg. While she addressed the difficulties of bridging rivers, I would like to look at the other side of the coin: … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Arms & Armaments, Campaigns, Ties to the War, Weapons
Tagged Army of Northern Virginia, Army of the Potomac, Burma, Chindwin River, Churchill, engineers, India, Irrawaddy River, James River, Montgomery, Pontoon Bridges, Rhine River, Robert E. Lee, U.S. Grant, William Slim, World War II
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Grant, the Wilderness, and the Loneliness of Command
On the evening of May 6, 1864, Lieutenant General U.S. Grant considered the day’s events. The Battle of the Wilderness had just ended its second day, and Grant’s forces had been beaten and battered in a way he’d never seen. … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Leadership--Federal, Personalities, Ties to the War
Tagged Army of the Potomac, Battle of the Wilderness, British Army, Bruce Catton, Burma, Dunkirk, France, Gerald Templer, India, Lord Gort, Orde Wingate, Overland Campaign, The War in 1864, U.S. Grant, William Slim, World War II
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