Outstanding job!!! Thank you for “introducing” us to U.S. Grant, in a more personal way. The opening narration by that young lady was also very good and intriguing into. Bravo! (It matters! ) 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Oh - my all time favorite story of Grant was when he took over the armies in the East. He and his staff were reconnoitering confederate positions and artillery. The confederate artillery started firing on them. A lower ranking officer rode up and said, "General, they are firing on us. We need to retreat." I guess Grant leaned over in his saddle, took a puff off of his cigar and replied, "Did it occur to you to fire back?"
Lee had whipped the Army of the Potomac so many times that they had a loser mentality and were afraid of him. There are other stories where officers showed their fear and Grant has to admonish them like this.
We researched and well acted. I was raised in Monroe County near Florida Missouri where Grant approached the Salt River. Missouri is rich with Civil War history. Far beyond what most people are taught in history classes.
I lived in western Missouri- and there is a lot of Civil War history and battlefields. It is fascinating. The actor was excellent. I rather think U.S. Grant talked that way.
It is amazing how US Grant was at almost the right time and place for a former West Point Graduate to start as a Colonel and then a General in the Civil War. He was a long way from Washington D.C and its toxic politics. It allowed Grant the chance to develop his skills as a General and to learn how to win battles. Most people do not realize how hard it is to win battles. Luck was part of his success, but the top commanders on both sides were West Point graduates. The pool of potential commanders was limited. In any case, Grant's time in Missouri was a time of preparation before he appeared on the National stage in February 1862.
Great vid/performance. Mexico is the county seat where I grew up. Ive always thought that Grants epiphany outside of Florida has been highly underrated. That epiphany greatly influenced his command decision making process.
Excellent. Having read Grant's memoirs, much of the monologue comes directly from his book. The setup similarly so. One thing perhaps is that Grant didn't normally wear officer shoulder straps. He preferred a private's outer jacket. Also, Mark Twain wrote that he was part of a hastily formed and partly drunk Hannibal company that skedaddled at this time, later learning it had been from Grant. Thanks for this wonderful info. I didn't know White Haven is a national site.
@@richty3845 Sounds like you the Joke. 30,000 fought for the south and a 109,000 fought for the north. Sounds like Missouri was more for the North. I think you need to get your head out of the sand
I'm a southerner who's 3X Grandfather and uncle fought for the 34th NC Inf. Co.G. Both were wounded at Chancellorsville and my grandfather died 5 days later. Considering the odds stacks against the Confederacy, Lee and Jackson had no equal as a duo. But at the foot stone of the Confederate memorial that has my ancestors names is a quote from U.S. Grant and how he threatened to level Washington with the victorious Union army if one gray hair of Robert E. Lee's head was harmed from those that sought his death for treason. Over the years I've gained a lot of respect for Grant. How he treated the men after Lee surrendered was honorable.
Tactically, logistically, and strategically Grant was a better general than Lee. Bottom line - who surrendered? Don't dip into the 'Lost Cause " garbage either.
Grant threatened to resign from the army after the war if Lee was prosecuted because he had given him a promise of immunity on the authority of Lincoln. But the idea that Grant would threaten to lead the US Army in mutiny and destroy Washington is absurd.
@@jeffreymcfadden9403 I was raised on the north bank of the Ohio river, and I've lived in Alabama since 1978. My cousins in Ohio think I sound sort of southern, but people here know I'm not from Alabama but can't place my accent. I once had a client who was a linguist at the University of Iowa who specialized in regional American accents. The first time I talked to her she told me that even though I lived in Birmingham, she could tell by my accent I was from southern Ohio or northern Kentucky, Cool.
Interesting. Jefferson City is where I now believe both my 2nd and 3rd great grandfathers served out of. Both of whom died during the civil war at 41 and 74 years of age. One just at the beginning and the other at the end.
I can't finish watching this ... if you can't get even the simple fact right of how many stars of a general he was then you just didn't do your homework. It took an act of Congress to give Grant his third and final star, so that he equaled the rank Washington attained. But in this video the first glimpse we get out of the actor he has four stars on his shoulder bars
On 25 July 1866, the U.S. Congress established the rank of "General of the Army of the United States" for General Ulysses S. Grant. His pay was "four hundred dollars per month, and his allowance for fuel and quarters", except "when his headquarters are in Washington, shall be at the rate of three hundred dollars per month."[5] (His combined monthly pay and allowance of seven hundred dollars in 1866 is equivalent to $13,000 in 2021). When appointed General of the Army, Grant wore the rank insignia of four stars and coat buttons arranged in three groups of four.
Why did you leave out Grant freeing a slave his wife owned given to them by her father. He was flat broke and could have sold the slave for a large sum.
Grant was one of the first former presidents whose actual voice was recorded. This otherwise fine actor in this movie with a Tennessee accent does not sound like Grant. The real Grant had a sort of political false-hearted sounding voice, very much like President Eisenhower at his worst. In view of Grant's tremendous skill in warfare, we would expect a more sincere-sounding voice coming from the real Grant. In any case, the actor's whining, grinding voice is as insulting to the memory of the country's greatest soldier as is Grant's own voice.
