Tag Archives: Ulysses S. Grant

objects lesson

Posted on January 1, 2014 by SUMPTER

In the first month of the new year a conservative editorial from a Democrat paper in the Finger Lakes region of New York State objected to what it saw as the war aims of the Lincoln administration -emancipation, increasing national … Continue reading →

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Hoosier press

Posted on December 19, 2013 by SUMPTER

death and taxes … and politics? From The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Volume Seven: TELEGRAM TO GENERAL U.S. GRANT. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, December 19, 1863. GENERAL GRANT, Chattanooga, Tennessee: The Indiana delegation in Congress, or at least a … Continue reading →

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“glorious victory”

Posted on November 25, 2013 by SUMPTER

The only extant cutting in the Seneca Falls, New York library’s big notebook of Civil War local newspaper clippings regarding the late November battles around Chattanooga is a reproduction of General Montgomery C. Meigs’ official report to Secretary of War … Continue reading →

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fulcrum point?

Posted on November 16, 2013 by SUMPTER

Ever more Yankees, including General Grant, were concentrating at Chattanooga. This Richmond editorial knew the North was going to attack and hoped that if the South won it would break “the backbone of the war.” Otherwise, “the South will be … Continue reading →

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Granted …

Posted on August 15, 2013 by SUMPTER

A Yankee general who could exploit the odds in his favor From the Richmond Daily Dispatch August 14, 1863: Gen Grant. Military merit is so rare among the Yankee Generals that we are not at all surprised by the excessive … Continue reading →

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generally speaking

Posted on July 29, 2013 by SUMPTER

The Commander-in-Chief manages some of his generals. From The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Volume Six: To GENERAL G. G. MEADE. (Private.) EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, July 27, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE: I have not thrown General Hooker away; and therefore … Continue reading →

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Haunted Fourth

Posted on July 4, 2013 by SUMPTER

From The Heart of a Soldier: As Revealed in the Intimate Letters of Genl. George E. Pickett (pages 101-103): On the Fourth – far from a glorious Fourth to us or to any with love for his fellow-men – I … Continue reading →

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Stars and Stripes Over Vicksburg?

Posted on May 23, 2013 by SUMPTER

As usual Seven Score and Ten and Civil War Daily Gazette have been doing an excellent job keeping us up to date on General Grant’s attempt to capture Vicksburg, Mississippi for the Union cause. 150 years ago yesterday the Federal … Continue reading →

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Grant Needs to “get to moving again”

Posted on March 16, 2012 by SUMPTER

Uncomfortably Sedentary Grant? I like this quote attributed to U.S. Grant. From The New-York Times March 14, 1862: THE REBELLION. … Gen. GRANT, in a letter to an officer stationed at Fort Henry, dated March 5, says: “I have not … Continue reading →

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Henry Wilson’s Regiment

Posted on September 30, 2011 by SUMPTER

From The New-York Times September 30, 1861: COL WILSON’S REGIMENT. The following telegram has just been received by assistant Quartermaster-General FRANK E. HOWE: BOSTON, Saturday, Sept. 28. We must postpone our departure forty-eight hours. We will leave Boston at 6 … Continue reading →

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