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Being caught napping at Shiloh and nearly having his army pushed into the river on the first day.
Refusing to go back and cross the Mississippi at Memphis because he thought it would look like a retreat.
Judging that the Battle of the Crater would fail, and only allowing the preparations to go ahead in order to keep the men from getting idle and rebellious.
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∙ 12y agoHis biggest failure was to supervise the appalling mix-up at the Battle of the Crater (Petersburg) - the blame lying equally between him and George Meade, and definitely not poor old Burnside who got stuck with it.
He is also judged to have underestimated the calibre of George Thomas 'Rock of Chickamauga'.
Grant said his most grievious error was the assaults made on Lee's formidable entrenchments at Cold Harbor, Virginia, in 1864. He lost nearly 2000 men killed in this battle, as opposed to Lee's 83 killed.
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His birth.
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Ulysses S. Grant was in the Republican party.
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he was the president of the united states
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Abraham lincoln was his rolemodel
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Ulysses S. Grant but was born Hiram Ulysses Grant.
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