Ulysses S. Grant

Grant supposedly had cancer (carcinoma ) of the tongue and tonsils. There was no treatments back then.

The Northern public liked the idea of the initials 'US', as it chimed with 'United States' and also 'Unconditional Surrender'.

Also there has always been a suggestion that he was christened with a middle name 'Simpson'.

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He was the first U.S. President elected after the war. Grant owned slaves after the war, due to the emancipation proclamation effecting only southern states as a way of punishing them for the war. His slave (his wife had several) was not freed until 1865...well after the war. In addition, the great "emancipator's" wife Mary Todd Lincoln came from a slave holding family.

General Robert E. Lee was opposed to slavery and felt it to be morally and politically wrong. Anyone interested in more on this should go to the National Park Service website and look under White Haven (general grant's slave holding farm).

So, when you win a war you get to rewrite history to benefit yourself. I am glad the nps.gov website is actually admitting that the union general that fought "to end slavery" had slaves himself. Surprise, surprise!

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General John Fremont took control of the Department of the West on July 25, 1861. His headquarters was in St. Louis. With the approval of President Lincoln and General in Chief Winfield Scott, Fremont was to raise an army and try to capture Memphis, Tennessee.

no the last president to own slaves was president Garfeild.

Yes, he was the eldest child.

He won the first Union victories of the war, in Western Tennessee, and eventually liberated the Mississippi. After that, he rescued the Army of the Cumberland at Chattanooga, and gained so much credit that he was appointed General-in-Chief, finally taking the surrender of Robert E. Lee.

Grant achieved fame by winning the Civil War as the its commanding general. He then served in Washington was the acting Secretary of War and people starting urging him to run for President. There were no other strong candidates, so Grant agreed to run and won easily for two terms.

Unconditional Surrender was a nickname of U.S. Grant of the Union Army. It was in part because of his initials and partly because of his reluctance to accept terms of surrender from the South.

Grant came down hard upon the beaten south and worked hard to become president, which he did

He depended on other political party members with decisions because he had no political experience whatsoever.

The location that arked the beginning of the civil war was Gettysburg.

Shiloh

The Confederate soldiers were given food and were allowed to keep their horses.

Ulysses S. Grant

General US Grant he was determined to remain on the offensive, which contrasted much with the overly cautious command of the Army of the Potomac over much of the war. An anecdote I have heard has some of Grant's detractors, as his reputation was building in the west, telling Lincoln that Grant was a drunk. Lincoln is said to have replied that Grant should send a barrel to his other generals. His intitials were sometimes said to stand for "Unconditional Surrender." Here is one website with a lot of biographical information on Grant, and the page entitled "What Made Grant Great?": h I believe the previous answer pretty much is correct. I think he spent a lot of time with whiskey, more than you may want to think. And while doing this, he directed a very large army to many victories. Even if he was a drunk, he was a very smart General. General Grant rose in rank and was recognized for his aggressive campaign and victories. He was promoted to the highest ranking general and placed in command of the army around the capitol that was fighting the Confederate General Robert E. Lee. In this position, he had direct influence on other campaigns, even those in the West.

Sadly, it can be debated with no ill intent, that Grant's strategies and tactics unreasonable cost may soldiers' lives on both sides. He did have a lust for victories that damaged his reputation among many people, North and South.

Some of Grant's critics point out that his victories in major battles were when he had a clear advantage in numbers of troops. Also, his victories were often against targets that had been seriously weakened before Grant's appearance and unlike generals on both sides of the war, Grant's name is not associated with famous battles such as the battles of Bull Run, Antietam, Peninsula campaign, Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, the Atlanta campaign or Chickamaugua.

Sieges at Vicksburg and Petersburg were successful largely due to his large troop advantages.

These critiques were not personal, and Grant cannot be faulted for being absent from the above mentioned battles that took place in the eastern theater.

Battles at Shiloh, Chattanooga and Donelson are recognized, however, they are based on his troop number advantage, and naval gunboat assistance. The idea that Grant was a "great general" may be exaggerated.

As an army commander, his policy was to destroy enemy forces instead of just occupying territory, and to pursue hard after a victory.

As General-in-Chief, he saw his job as starving the Confederates of men by ending the system of prisoner exchange.

The Confederate soldiers were given food and were allowed to keep their horses, however, the Southerners had to surrender their rifles. Most Southern soldiers would return to their farms for Spring planting.

Appomattox Court House, which despite the name was actually a small village rather than a single building. The specific building where the surrender was concluded was the home of Wilmer McLean.

The impact he had on American history was that he found a way to end the war...The general before him stopped attacking the South instead of just ending it...The Grant came in had the South running scared and kept going and going at the South until they surrendered

At Vicksburg (Mississippi) in 1863, the strategies of the Northern and Southern armies involved were clearly defined. For its part, the North needed to take the fortress so as to secure control of the Mississippi River. In contrast, the South needed to prevent this from happening, preferably by inflicting a decisive defeat on the North's armies so as to force a general retreat northwards.