@murraydonald62 Why would the US have aided Juarez? Of course Grant would go wherever he was sent. He was a good soldier. But he did not approve of the US's entry into the Mexican War (1846-1848).
@eringobragh915 The North never approved of the French involvement in Mexico, it went against the Monroe Doctrine and they were afraid of French support for the Confederacy. At several points they stationed men along the border to keep the French in line, in fact after the war General Sheridan missed the grand review because Grant sent him down to the border because Grant had heard action might be taken. After the war however nobody in the north or south was eager for more fighting.
Best 4 generals in any time period in this single war: Grant, Sherman, Lee, And Jackson. This is the war that shaped america, at least until the pogressives showed up in the early 19th century.
I always got a chuckle out of what Shelby Foote speculated in his masterpiece on the war: that Grant didn't speak up about being registered as Ulysses S. Grant instead of Hiram Ulysses Grant at West Point because he realized he'd be spared being called "Hug" by his classmates.
Actually, he signed up as Ulysses Hiram Grant. The Simpson part was the clerical error, Simpson being his mother's maiden name. There is classwork of Grant's that still exists where he signed his name "Ulysses H. Grant."
@eringobragh915 And in the "Old Army" he was uniformly referred to as "Sam Grant". He realized that his steamer trunk had his initials on it in brass "H.U.G". and pried them off with his pocket knife. His appointment was in the name of Ulysses Simpson Grant. and he stepped forward to claim his position. Standards of documentation were more relaxed then. "Di minimis non curat lex."
@PatriotAmerican777 Close. He registered as Ulysses Hiram Grant, but a clerk's error recorded him as Ulysses Simpson Grant. Simpson being his mother's maiden name. If you look at copies of his classwork, he signed them "Ulysses H. Grant."
@Thx1138d 1864 Lincoln puts him in command of all Union armies. Grant comes east. Grant and son Fred show up at Willards Hotel in DC unannounced. Clerk tells Grant no rooms except a closet in attic. Grant says okay and signs guest book: "US Grant and son, Galena Il" . Clerk freaks. Grant gets presidential suit and proceeds to win the war. God bless the memory of US Grant.
They say George Washington Carver was the smartest Black Botanist of all Time. Did hundreds of things with the Peanut. Making Peanut Butter was not one. So Name one thing He did with a Peanut? Nothing. He is just somebody trying to hide. He is Ulysses S Grant. He gets on the side of Good so he can make sure that Good Loses. Because Stonewall Jackson was the Black Man. First folks of a tribe are mostly Black. Last family is mostly Irish. Mostly Cop. They say No cop or slave can be smarter the G
I'm allowing the above bit of ranting insanity to remain here in the comments section for entertainment purposes only. I have had my share of lunatics trying to post comments on my videos, and I typically do not allow them, but I found myself unable to deny this one. It's too priceless.
You, sir, have reached unparalleled heights in gibbering babblespeak. Kudos!
I felt some of my brain cells committing suicide, while reading the comment posted by GumpVader...does not compute...does not compute...does not compute...
Grant did NOT out gun lee. He used strategy and wit. He knew that the reason the other generals had been failing was because they would retreat after every defeat. He kept marching on and driving back the rebels. He did out-think lee because Lee did not know a way to stop him..
Cold Harbor was what happened when Grant tried to turn over direct control of the army to the people under him... never made that mistake again.
He might also be the only general to win a campaign without winning any of the battles involved: Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Spotsylvania. Two draws and a loss, yet Grant wins the campaign because he drives Lee all the way back to Richmond. Beginning of the end.
i was just taken aback by the out think comment Grant wasnt afraid of Lee which was probably the most important factor in his victory but he dint out think him he out gunned him. im not saying that he wasnt great, i personaly think the battle of champion hill was the first real nail in the confederate coffin I just dont think winning a war of attrition as the overland campain was proves you are a better general
The Overland Campaign was a war of maneuver. The Petersburg Campaign did turn out to be a war of attrition, but that wasn't Grant's original plan. Grant was in it to win it, that is what makes him better than the guys who came before him. Lee beat all those guys. The one he couldn't beat was Grant. Grant outmaneuvered Lee to Petersburg & thus won the Overland Campaign despite tying or losing every battle. The other guys ALL outgunned Lee, but only GRANT outmaneuvered him.
Think about that, folks. Every Union general who came before Grant outnumbered and outgunned Lee and had more access to supplies than Lee did and so forth. None of THEM beat Lee. Obviously it takes something more than that, and Grant had it while the others didn't.
i said before that dealing with someone like Sherman wouldve required a pit bull type of approach! but dealing with Grant would have required more patience and brain work to nail his superior mind! and his army!!
Actually Sherman seemed to require a rather gentle, understanding approach, according to those who dealt with him... he was very much a self-starter, really too much.
It disgraces me how little America appreciates Grant. I am reading his memoirs. Long live the Union, and the memory of general and president Ulysses Simpson Grant.
(Part 1) Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation helped to precipitate New York's draft riots (July 11-16, 1863) whereat 100's of innocent blacks were killed (even a black orphanage was torched). There was no love for Negroes north of the Mason-Dixon Line. Indeed, the incidents of lynchings, per capita, were often higher in the Union. The European powers saw Lincoln's pronouncement as a plea for plantation Negroes to slaughter their absent masters' wives & children.
Horse hockey! The New York draft riots were in direct response to the provisions in the 1st. Conscription Ac, which allowed men drafted to pay either $300 (which the poor could not afford) or supply a substitute as a "commutation fee" to procure exemption from service. The immigrant and poor populations of NY rose up mostly out of the 6th ward against this. While it was true that blacks were targeted by these groups it is not true that lynchings were common place in the North...
Yes, but being conscripted to free the slaves was what they were angry about. They envisioned free blacks surging north to take their low-wage jobs away from them.
Does anyone know that Lee and Grant first met in the Mexican War? Lee said upon meeting him at Appomattox that he looked familiar, and Grant said he remembered the meeting!
In the war with Mexico in 1846 Ulysses Simpson Grant said.
"We had been used to provoke war, but it was essential that Mexico as the start ... Mexico did not show any willingness to come to the Nueces River, it became necessary for the 'invader', approaching a suitable distance to be attacked as this, preparations were undertaken to move the army into rio Grande, to a point near Matamoros."
I agree with him, I think the gov't used the army to provoke a fight with Mexico because we wanted some of their territory. There is another passage in Grant's memoirs where he says the Mexican war was the most unjust war by a stronger power against a weaker one, or something like that. He said nothing like this at the time, but he wrote about it in his old age.
I'm certainly not in favor of giving any land back, but there's no reason to be in denial about how we came to have it.
I firmly believe that Jackson would have strongly supported the united States during the war if he was around so I'm not sure if it's best to call him "pro southern"
Remember, this is the man who shouted "Our federal Union: It must be preserved!" at a dinner.
"There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone."
"Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down."
"The Constitution... forms a government not a league... To say that any State may at pleasure secede from the Union is to say that the United States is not a nation."
Jackson was ready and willing to shove a Federal Saber up South Carolina's ass if they would have actually moved toward secession.
ANY conscientious President would have, lest he be brought up on charges of treason and dereliction.
Those whackjob Neo Confederates who demonize Lincoln forget conveniently forget about Nullification and how a good Southern boy like Jackson was ready to send troops into Dixie because of it.
I know that Hollywood is making a Lincoln movie but really wish they would make a Grant movie. They could capture the strengths and weaknesses, successess and failures of the man throughout his life. And Americans would be able to see why he was and is a model of the American man. Who do any of you think should play Grant in his own movie or trilogy about his life? Maybe Bruce Willis
I can't believe a movie about Grant has not been done already. His story is total Hollywood material.
If they'd done it a few years ago, Tommy Lee Jones would have made a good Grant. Now I think maybe Paul Giamatti or Aidan Quinn. Quinn in "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" looks just like Grant.
I think Grant well symbolizes the vast difference between elite South and more blue-collar North. Two different interpretations of freedom, and as a theory I prefer the Southern one minus the racist concept of African-Americans (which was, by the by, first formulated by a Northern MD). It stays more true to the FFs' decentered emphasis, and was I think more symphatic to Romanticism as a movement, meaning (free) arts, ideas and thinking.
BTW: Anyone know if any of the Agrarians agreed on this?
Although both of Grant's parnets were both opposed to slavery their son attitude toward slavery was slow to evole.Though he considered it neither proper nor politic to comdem slave owners.But his viewpoint change over time especial after April 1861 when the issue became embroiled in the fate of the nation.He became the government instrument to stamp out the institution, which he did to great effect.
I wish people wouldn't use this as an opportunity to drag Grant's name through the mud, and I say this as someone who's childhood hero was Robert E. Lee. Grant was an honorable man, decisive general, and deserves respect.
Lee was against slavery and was against the war. His downfall was putting his "country", Virginia, above the United States. Even though I'm a Connecticut Yankee I consider Lee a great general and a great American. He proved he was a great general at Chancellorsville, just as Grant did at Shiloh and especially the Vicksburg campaign.
regarding queenice2. I am also related to Ulysses Grant. He is my grandfather 5 generations back. No Joke also. I have pictures of his granddaughters and their granddaughters that have been passed down from granddad Grant himself.My faves are of Molly Grant in front of Grant farm. Very cool to hear that you are related also. He was a great man and sincere in all his efforts. From what my Grandmother tells me, it is true that he could not hold his liquor. Still honored to be his granddaughter.
ulysses s grant wasnt the only heroic general there, There is Robert E.Lee the best general in the war.Ulysses was known to be a drunk and was willing to sacrifice tens of thousands of men just for victory!!!
Lee is the most overrated military commander in American history. He had less men, but lost a far higher percentage of them than Grant ever did. He wasted good men like water at Malvern Hill and Gettysburg, and yet Grant gets called a "butcher. Lee lovers just can't get over the fact that Lee was a complete failure, so they try call Grant a drunk. Sour grapes. Bobby Lee lost the war because he was stupid. Face it.
I am approving this comment because much of it is true, and much of it I *suspect* is true. But Lee was not stupid -- he was a great commander with flaws like every great commander. He beat everyone he faced except he couldn't beat Grant. But neither could anybody else...
But Lee is an over rated commander. There were other that were said to be better than him in the south. Like Thomas Jackson and Albert Sidney Johnston.
We'll never know for sure about Grant's abilities as a great strategist, because he never was put in that situation.When it came to all war a war of attrition he had no equal,[perhaps Sherman].It took someone like Grant to defeat Lee,of that there is no doubt.
Wait, WHAT? Please, do yourself a favor, read up on Grant. He was not born the day before the start of the Overland Campaign. "Never put in that situation"?? Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, the crossing of the James... sound familiar?
You are even more wrong about Sherman; he never participated in a war of attrition except for the brief siege of Atlanta. Sherman's specialty was speed and maneuver. You obviously bleed gray and that's OK, but learn something about the blue too
Grant lost more men becasue he had to be the aggressor. Lee was fine in his defensive posture throughout the Wilderness campaign. Grant had to attack Lee to get Lincoln reelected and bring the South back into the Union at the point of a gun. He may of lost more men but remember Lee knew that if Grant got him out in the open in a major battle the Army of Northern Virginia would be crushed. And that is what happened when Grant got Lee out of his treaches at Richmond and Petersburg.
@SanchezAccount Read history pinhead. Grant's losses were LESS than his opponents in ALL campaigns. No documented drinking episodes during the war. You are reading too much lost cause revisionist bs published in the 1890's. Grow up and do some serious study.
Ulysses S. Grant has to be my favorite presidents. I just don't understand why the rebels just can't get over the war and admit Grant was not only a heroic military leader but an all around good guy.
P.S. Fallen soul that's really cool he's your 5th uncle
This recording of "The Battle Cry Of Freedom" is from a Columbia Gold record. The album title is "The Union". A companion record is "The Confederacy". There may be a third record "The Republic".
These were recorded in the 1960s. The record jacket is a book with writings and photographs. I bought my copies about 1973 each cost $27.00.
Copies of "The Union" and "The Confederacy" are at the Brand Library Branch, City Of Glendale, California 91201.
I don't think you would believe me on this and I seriously don't, but i would like to put out that he is in fact my 5th great uncle and this is the reason that I'm proud to be an American. I don't care if you don't believe me because only I know the truth on that.
i feel that as and insult hero isn't a good enough word to praise Grant make a better one even if you have to make it up make a word that praises grant more
Is any one related to him? if u are respond on my page. He is my Great Great Great Great Great Great Uncle. Hes on my great grandmothers side of the family. And look i dont give a damn if u dont belive me i mean seriously if someone told me they were related to george washington i wouldent belive them. please dont reply to this comment. and no im not pulling a prank! And i must say im still a kid. :)
he says Grant was a very good strategist and tactic. All its predecessors were only on its renown from. With Sherman, Sheridan and Thomas, it had capable subordinate. Also the professor J. Chamberlain was a smart general.
Grant war ein sehr guter Stratege und Taktiker. Alle seine Vorgänger waren nur auf ihren Ruhm aus. Mit Sherman, Sheridan und Thomas hatte er fähige Untergebene. Auch der Professor J. Chamberlain war ein kluger General.
He is basically saying that good strategist and tactitian and that Sherman, Sheridan and Thomas were capable subordinates. Chamberlain was also a good general. Nothing to argue about.
thats not enough words to praise Grant I think they need to wright a book about how great he was Lincoln was the great Emancipator but Grant was the great general
I really like this video, the pictures and music are relaxing if you're a Yankee like me...I posted a vid of Grant's first Galena home, the one he was renting when the war began...
I'm not a Yankee, but I still enjoy it. Though a Kentuckian with Virginian heritage, I would have maintained loyalty to the Union. Without the Union, we would have nothing.
Virginia and N.Carolina are the only states I felt sorry for when their cities where destroyed one barely voted for secession the other broke into two states because of it
The Union forever!
at3p1 1 month ago
Love this video... HUZZAH for the Union boys !!!!!!
auld125 4 months ago
I Volunteier, i'd fight under gerneral Grant anyday. Hooya
BuBzIeNYNY 5 months ago
Was the Horse pictured Cincinatus ?
LUCKYBROOKS 7 months ago
@LUCKYBROOKS Yes it was.
eringobragh915 7 months ago
what year is the photo at 0:47 from? looks like mexican american war
45Jwalsh 9 months ago
@45Jwalsh Yes, it's from the Mexican War.
eringobragh915 9 months ago
If US would have aided Juárez I think he(Grant) would have been selected to Campaign war.And he is tough as nails.
murraydonald62 10 months ago
@murraydonald62 Why would the US have aided Juarez? Of course Grant would go wherever he was sent. He was a good soldier. But he did not approve of the US's entry into the Mexican War (1846-1848).
eringobragh915 10 months ago
what would look like if Grant Marched into Mexico to kick out the French.
murraydonald62 10 months ago
@murraydonald62 Why would he do that?
eringobragh915 10 months ago
@eringobragh915 The North never approved of the French involvement in Mexico, it went against the Monroe Doctrine and they were afraid of French support for the Confederacy. At several points they stationed men along the border to keep the French in line, in fact after the war General Sheridan missed the grand review because Grant sent him down to the border because Grant had heard action might be taken. After the war however nobody in the north or south was eager for more fighting.
Macgarnickle 8 months ago
Grant was a badass genius.
PaulMichaelHoffman 1 year ago
Today, April 27th is Grant's Birthday!
Jubilo1 1 year ago
Best 4 generals in any time period in this single war: Grant, Sherman, Lee, And Jackson. This is the war that shaped america, at least until the pogressives showed up in the early 19th century.
HeartlessGorre 2 years ago
Dude, the Civil War took place after the "early 19th century." 1861-1865, remember?
eringobragh915 2 years ago 3
wait now im confused. what?! oh. i meant the 20th century. ok.
HeartlessGorre 2 years ago
@HeartlessGorre Best four generals: about right.
bookkeeper57 1 year ago
I always got a chuckle out of what Shelby Foote speculated in his masterpiece on the war: that Grant didn't speak up about being registered as Ulysses S. Grant instead of Hiram Ulysses Grant at West Point because he realized he'd be spared being called "Hug" by his classmates.
Arbeedubya 2 years ago
Actually, he signed up as Ulysses Hiram Grant. The Simpson part was the clerical error, Simpson being his mother's maiden name. There is classwork of Grant's that still exists where he signed his name "Ulysses H. Grant."
eringobragh915 2 years ago
No kidding. Guess it just goes to show even an authority like Foote can be mistaken.
Arbeedubya 2 years ago
That is, he was born Hiram Ulysses Grant, but always went by Ulysses, and registered at West Point as Ulysses Hiram Grant.
Everyone confused yet?
eringobragh915 2 years ago
@eringobragh915 And in the "Old Army" he was uniformly referred to as "Sam Grant". He realized that his steamer trunk had his initials on it in brass "H.U.G". and pried them off with his pocket knife. His appointment was in the name of Ulysses Simpson Grant. and he stepped forward to claim his position. Standards of documentation were more relaxed then. "Di minimis non curat lex."
DonMeaker 1 year ago
@eringobragh915 He was born Hiram Ulysses Grant. He was registered at West Point as Ulysses Simpson Grant. Simpson was his mother's maiden name.
PatriotAmerican777 11 months ago
@PatriotAmerican777 Close. He registered as Ulysses Hiram Grant, but a clerk's error recorded him as Ulysses Simpson Grant. Simpson being his mother's maiden name. If you look at copies of his classwork, he signed them "Ulysses H. Grant."
eringobragh915 11 months ago
I liked the story of how the clerk at the Washington DC hotel was rude to
Gen. Grant because he thought he was a bum.
Thx1138d 10 months ago
@Thx1138d 1864 Lincoln puts him in command of all Union armies. Grant comes east. Grant and son Fred show up at Willards Hotel in DC unannounced. Clerk tells Grant no rooms except a closet in attic. Grant says okay and signs guest book: "US Grant and son, Galena Il" . Clerk freaks. Grant gets presidential suit and proceeds to win the war. God bless the memory of US Grant.
andylarson19591 9 months ago
@andylarson19591 One of my favorite Grant stories.
eringobragh915 9 months ago
I found out through my family history that I'm related to Ulysses S. Grant. I thought that was pretty cool.
texasflood54 2 years ago
@texasflood54 lol well then your related to me somehow. im his great-great-great-great-great grandson.
Nick22pr 1 year ago
@texasflood54 lol well then your related to me somehow. im his great-great-great-great-great grandson.
Nick22pr 1 year ago
this is a true patriot song
coldkeyes 2 years ago 18
They say George Washington Carver was the smartest Black Botanist of all Time. Did hundreds of things with the Peanut. Making Peanut Butter was not one. So Name one thing He did with a Peanut? Nothing. He is just somebody trying to hide. He is Ulysses S Grant. He gets on the side of Good so he can make sure that Good Loses. Because Stonewall Jackson was the Black Man. First folks of a tribe are mostly Black. Last family is mostly Irish. Mostly Cop. They say No cop or slave can be smarter the G
GumpVader 2 years ago 3
I'm allowing the above bit of ranting insanity to remain here in the comments section for entertainment purposes only. I have had my share of lunatics trying to post comments on my videos, and I typically do not allow them, but I found myself unable to deny this one. It's too priceless.
You, sir, have reached unparalleled heights in gibbering babblespeak. Kudos!
eringobragh915 2 years ago
I felt some of my brain cells committing suicide, while reading the comment posted by GumpVader...does not compute...does not compute...does not compute...
wolfencrow 2 years ago 2
@eringobragh915 haha - I have to agree...I read that one jaw agape!
mkeithharris 1 year ago
@GumpVader What are you smoking?
andylarson19591 9 months ago
Grant did NOT out gun lee. He used strategy and wit. He knew that the reason the other generals had been failing was because they would retreat after every defeat. He kept marching on and driving back the rebels. He did out-think lee because Lee did not know a way to stop him..
FeSo4man 2 years ago 2
yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa to the union
RufusVideos 2 years ago 3
The only Union general who could out think Robert E Lee.
bookkeeper57 2 years ago 9
cold harbour....
RLStink 2 years ago
Cold Harbor was what happened when Grant tried to turn over direct control of the army to the people under him... never made that mistake again.
He might also be the only general to win a campaign without winning any of the battles involved: Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Spotsylvania. Two draws and a loss, yet Grant wins the campaign because he drives Lee all the way back to Richmond. Beginning of the end.
eringobragh915 2 years ago
i was just taken aback by the out think comment Grant wasnt afraid of Lee which was probably the most important factor in his victory but he dint out think him he out gunned him. im not saying that he wasnt great, i personaly think the battle of champion hill was the first real nail in the confederate coffin I just dont think winning a war of attrition as the overland campain was proves you are a better general
RLStink 2 years ago
The Overland Campaign was a war of maneuver. The Petersburg Campaign did turn out to be a war of attrition, but that wasn't Grant's original plan. Grant was in it to win it, that is what makes him better than the guys who came before him. Lee beat all those guys. The one he couldn't beat was Grant. Grant outmaneuvered Lee to Petersburg & thus won the Overland Campaign despite tying or losing every battle. The other guys ALL outgunned Lee, but only GRANT outmaneuvered him.
eringobragh915 2 years ago
Think about that, folks. Every Union general who came before Grant outnumbered and outgunned Lee and had more access to supplies than Lee did and so forth. None of THEM beat Lee. Obviously it takes something more than that, and Grant had it while the others didn't.
eringobragh915 2 years ago
Malvern hill, Picketts charge, Fort Stedman....
CaptainWildFire 2 years ago
What about them?
eringobragh915 2 years ago
Hurrah, boys, hurrah! Union forever! Ulysses!!!!!!!! Awesome Vid!!!!!!!!
waffleperson5678 2 years ago 16
i said before that dealing with someone like Sherman wouldve required a pit bull type of approach! but dealing with Grant would have required more patience and brain work to nail his superior mind! and his army!!
acerb45666555 2 years ago
Actually Sherman seemed to require a rather gentle, understanding approach, according to those who dealt with him... he was very much a self-starter, really too much.
eringobragh915 2 years ago
April 27, 2009-Happy Birthday to Sam Grant! " The war is over. The rebels are our countrymen again."
Jubilo1 2 years ago 6
It disgraces me how little America appreciates Grant. I am reading his memoirs. Long live the Union, and the memory of general and president Ulysses Simpson Grant.
disconabisco2234 2 years ago 7
Sehr gutes Video. Auch ich interessiere mich für Euren - civil war -. U. Grant war der Stratege des Nordens und umsichtigste General des Krieges.
caipatric 2 years ago
People, post in English.
eringobragh915 2 years ago
(Part 1) Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation helped to precipitate New York's draft riots (July 11-16, 1863) whereat 100's of innocent blacks were killed (even a black orphanage was torched). There was no love for Negroes north of the Mason-Dixon Line. Indeed, the incidents of lynchings, per capita, were often higher in the Union. The European powers saw Lincoln's pronouncement as a plea for plantation Negroes to slaughter their absent masters' wives & children.
Asparagusville 2 years ago
Horse hockey! The New York draft riots were in direct response to the provisions in the 1st. Conscription Ac, which allowed men drafted to pay either $300 (which the poor could not afford) or supply a substitute as a "commutation fee" to procure exemption from service. The immigrant and poor populations of NY rose up mostly out of the 6th ward against this. While it was true that blacks were targeted by these groups it is not true that lynchings were common place in the North...
roopr 2 years ago
Yes, but being conscripted to free the slaves was what they were angry about. They envisioned free blacks surging north to take their low-wage jobs away from them.
eringobragh915 2 years ago
Makes me want to suppress the Rebellion !
Jubilo1 2 years ago 5
I am not a Military Buff, but Grant's Memoirs are a great read.
archer1949 2 years ago 5
I second that!
eringobragh915 2 years ago
Ulysses S. Grant GREAT HEROE OF THE REPUBLIC GOOD BLESS HIM AND HIS LEGACY!!!!
XEROZMASTER 2 years ago 8
im going to use this video for a presentation in school if thats ohkayy lol .. great video thnx
xthinkPINKluvx 3 years ago
That's fine as long as you don't tell people YOU made it. You weren't planning on doing that, right?
eringobragh915 3 years ago
I am related to this guy, I looked uo on my family tree!
hawkdude15 3 years ago
i very nice man to meet but a very tactical general
chandler3214 3 years ago
sweet my grandpa
homeaai 3 years ago
Wow. You must be very old...
eringobragh915 3 years ago
Grant= greatest general in American history. Brought to you by a Southerner. Southern by birth, American by the grace of God.;)
JEREMIAHWAZABULLFROG 3 years ago 9
A good man.
And this came from a Southerner by the way...
iluvroyals2much 3 years ago
You are not the only Southerner to have ever said so. When Grant ran for president in 1868, he carried Virginia.
eringobragh915 3 years ago
I know, but I figured I might as well add that on there. :)
iluvroyals2much 3 years ago
Does anyone know that Lee and Grant first met in the Mexican War? Lee said upon meeting him at Appomattox that he looked familiar, and Grant said he remembered the meeting!
MJ0428 3 years ago
I think Grant said in his memoirs that they had met briefly in Mexico, and Grant remembered it but Lee did not.
eringobragh915 3 years ago
In the war with Mexico in 1846 Ulysses Simpson Grant said.
"We had been used to provoke war, but it was essential that Mexico as the start ... Mexico did not show any willingness to come to the Nueces River, it became necessary for the 'invader', approaching a suitable distance to be attacked as this, preparations were undertaken to move the army into rio Grande, to a point near Matamoros."
what's your opinion eringobragh915 ?
escala1985 3 years ago
I agree with him, I think the gov't used the army to provoke a fight with Mexico because we wanted some of their territory. There is another passage in Grant's memoirs where he says the Mexican war was the most unjust war by a stronger power against a weaker one, or something like that. He said nothing like this at the time, but he wrote about it in his old age.
I'm certainly not in favor of giving any land back, but there's no reason to be in denial about how we came to have it.
eringobragh915 3 years ago
I agree, was something unfair Mexico was a weak country in all respects with regard to the gringos.
The presidents pro southerners Jackson, Tyler and Polk wanted war.
The settlers of Texas violated Mexican law by introducing slaves also abused the number of settlers allowed by the Mexican government.
As for the northerners were not opposed to the annexation, but if the aspirations of the south over these territories.
escala1985 3 years ago
I firmly believe that Jackson would have strongly supported the united States during the war if he was around so I'm not sure if it's best to call him "pro southern"
Remember, this is the man who shouted "Our federal Union: It must be preserved!" at a dinner.
cuchulainn424 3 years ago
Yeah, Andrew Jackson was quite the federalist. Google "nullification crisis." He was not pro-southern.
eringobragh915 3 years ago
"There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone."
"Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down."
"The Constitution... forms a government not a league... To say that any State may at pleasure secede from the Union is to say that the United States is not a nation."
rexlibris99 3 years ago 2
Jackson was ready and willing to shove a Federal Saber up South Carolina's ass if they would have actually moved toward secession.
ANY conscientious President would have, lest he be brought up on charges of treason and dereliction.
Those whackjob Neo Confederates who demonize Lincoln forget conveniently forget about Nullification and how a good Southern boy like Jackson was ready to send troops into Dixie because of it.
archer1949 2 years ago 5
I know that Hollywood is making a Lincoln movie but really wish they would make a Grant movie. They could capture the strengths and weaknesses, successess and failures of the man throughout his life. And Americans would be able to see why he was and is a model of the American man. Who do any of you think should play Grant in his own movie or trilogy about his life? Maybe Bruce Willis
Rock5482000 3 years ago
I can't believe a movie about Grant has not been done already. His story is total Hollywood material.
If they'd done it a few years ago, Tommy Lee Jones would have made a good Grant. Now I think maybe Paul Giamatti or Aidan Quinn. Quinn in "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" looks just like Grant.
eringobragh915 3 years ago
Grant and Lee were probably the two greatest military minds od their time.
RockyBalboa211 3 years ago
I think Grant well symbolizes the vast difference between elite South and more blue-collar North. Two different interpretations of freedom, and as a theory I prefer the Southern one minus the racist concept of African-Americans (which was, by the by, first formulated by a Northern MD). It stays more true to the FFs' decentered emphasis, and was I think more symphatic to Romanticism as a movement, meaning (free) arts, ideas and thinking.
BTW: Anyone know if any of the Agrarians agreed on this?
Stake2 3 years ago
long live sam grant.a true american
abrahamlincoln0900 3 years ago 3
Although both of Grant's parnets were both opposed to slavery their son attitude toward slavery was slow to evole.Though he considered it neither proper nor politic to comdem slave owners.But his viewpoint change over time especial after April 1861 when the issue became embroiled in the fate of the nation.He became the government instrument to stamp out the institution, which he did to great effect.
noleybo56 3 years ago
anybody read Grant's Memoirs?
kevefc2007 3 years ago
I have read them -- hard to imagine he had that much to say!
eringobragh915 3 years ago
I wish people wouldn't use this as an opportunity to drag Grant's name through the mud, and I say this as someone who's childhood hero was Robert E. Lee. Grant was an honorable man, decisive general, and deserves respect.
D4md0n3 3 years ago 5
Lee was against slavery and was against the war. His downfall was putting his "country", Virginia, above the United States. Even though I'm a Connecticut Yankee I consider Lee a great general and a great American. He proved he was a great general at Chancellorsville, just as Grant did at Shiloh and especially the Vicksburg campaign.
crocostimpy 3 years ago 2
to be accurate, he was lukewarm on slavery (as his letters show), and was against the war.
Albukhshi 3 years ago
Until Virginia seceded. Then he was in favor of the war. That's why he fought in it.
eringobragh915 3 years ago
The LOYAL South in the UNION FOREVER --
God Bless The USA! :)
frphilipmullen 3 years ago 5
I'm with you kinsman! I'm from Texas but I'm loyal to The Union 'till I die!
MMusashi7 3 years ago 3
Amen, Bro.!
God Bless Gen. Houston -- who despised the CONfederates!
The LOYAL SOUTH in the UNION FOREVER!
God Bless The USA!
frphilipmullen 3 years ago 6
personally i like the south's battle cry better......long live the confederate states of america
f22raptorpilot4life 3 years ago
Hail the confederacy!! Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, J.E.B. Stuart!!!!
SanchezAccount 3 years ago
I'm Related to Ulysses S. Grant. No Joke :)
he is my 5th Great uncle.
queenice2 3 years ago 2
regarding queenice2. I am also related to Ulysses Grant. He is my grandfather 5 generations back. No Joke also. I have pictures of his granddaughters and their granddaughters that have been passed down from granddad Grant himself.My faves are of Molly Grant in front of Grant farm. Very cool to hear that you are related also. He was a great man and sincere in all his efforts. From what my Grandmother tells me, it is true that he could not hold his liquor. Still honored to be his granddaughter.
jhen101 3 years ago
@jhen101 haha daughters line huh? im 5 generations back from a male line
Nick22pr 1 year ago
ulysses s grant wasnt the only heroic general there, There is Robert E.Lee the best general in the war.Ulysses was known to be a drunk and was willing to sacrifice tens of thousands of men just for victory!!!
SanchezAccount 3 years ago
I guess nobody ever died in Lee's army.
eringobragh915 3 years ago
Lee is the most overrated military commander in American history. He had less men, but lost a far higher percentage of them than Grant ever did. He wasted good men like water at Malvern Hill and Gettysburg, and yet Grant gets called a "butcher. Lee lovers just can't get over the fact that Lee was a complete failure, so they try call Grant a drunk. Sour grapes. Bobby Lee lost the war because he was stupid. Face it.
40AcreMule 3 years ago 6
I am approving this comment because much of it is true, and much of it I *suspect* is true. But Lee was not stupid -- he was a great commander with flaws like every great commander. He beat everyone he faced except he couldn't beat Grant. But neither could anybody else...
eringobragh915 3 years ago
But Lee is an over rated commander. There were other that were said to be better than him in the south. Like Thomas Jackson and Albert Sidney Johnston.
pytko3 3 years ago
Grant lost more men then Lee had in his entire army.From the Wildnerness to Petersburg,the AOP lost 80,000 men.So who was the better strategist?.
noleybo56 3 years ago
The guy who realized that his job was not to demonstrate what a great strategist he was, but to go out and win a war: Grant.
eringobragh915 3 years ago
We'll never know for sure about Grant's abilities as a great strategist, because he never was put in that situation.When it came to all war a war of attrition he had no equal,[perhaps Sherman].It took someone like Grant to defeat Lee,of that there is no doubt.
noleybo56 3 years ago
Wait, WHAT? Please, do yourself a favor, read up on Grant. He was not born the day before the start of the Overland Campaign. "Never put in that situation"?? Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, the crossing of the James... sound familiar?
You are even more wrong about Sherman; he never participated in a war of attrition except for the brief siege of Atlanta. Sherman's specialty was speed and maneuver. You obviously bleed gray and that's OK, but learn something about the blue too
eringobragh915 3 years ago
Amen. The North had better commanders than most give us credit for.
pytko3 3 years ago
Grant lost more men becasue he had to be the aggressor. Lee was fine in his defensive posture throughout the Wilderness campaign. Grant had to attack Lee to get Lincoln reelected and bring the South back into the Union at the point of a gun. He may of lost more men but remember Lee knew that if Grant got him out in the open in a major battle the Army of Northern Virginia would be crushed. And that is what happened when Grant got Lee out of his treaches at Richmond and Petersburg.
Rock5482000 3 years ago 2
Caesar and Napoleon did the same - that is the whole point of war, winning no matter what the human cost. - "GI" Government Issue.
orasis 3 years ago 2
@SanchezAccount Read history pinhead. Grant's losses were LESS than his opponents in ALL campaigns. No documented drinking episodes during the war. You are reading too much lost cause revisionist bs published in the 1890's. Grow up and do some serious study.
andylarson19591 9 months ago
Ulysses S. Grant has to be my favorite presidents. I just don't understand why the rebels just can't get over the war and admit Grant was not only a heroic military leader but an all around good guy.
P.S. Fallen soul that's really cool he's your 5th uncle
Grandove 3 years ago 5
im from romania and i love this song its cool and the the battle hymn of the republic i like too
tecramos 3 years ago 3
One of my favorite songs. When i get to play Federal at my reenactmens, I love to sing it!
Thor599 3 years ago 2
Cool! I love reenactments!
MoffJabba 3 years ago 2
You do not know the source of the music.
This recording of "The Battle Cry Of Freedom" is from a Columbia Gold record. The album title is "The Union". A companion record is "The Confederacy". There may be a third record "The Republic".
These were recorded in the 1960s. The record jacket is a book with writings and photographs. I bought my copies about 1973 each cost $27.00.
Copies of "The Union" and "The Confederacy" are at the Brand Library Branch, City Of Glendale, California 91201.
Davie1954 4 years ago
WOW, many thanks! I will try to track those down!
eringobragh915 4 years ago
This was the Union Army Anthem in the Civil War.
Mackerelman 4 years ago
I find the pic of Grant by the tent with his hand in his pocket incredibly sexy.
pea27pod 4 years ago 2
Well, you've got to admit that U.S. Grant was a sexy military commander and President.
MMusashi7 3 years ago
I don't think you would believe me on this and I seriously don't, but i would like to put out that he is in fact my 5th great uncle and this is the reason that I'm proud to be an American. I don't care if you don't believe me because only I know the truth on that.
Fall3nSoul21 4 years ago
God Bless Grant, Lincoln, McKinley, and ALL our UNION heroes -- God Bless The USA!
mllntrs 4 years ago 5
God Bless The USA!
frphilipmullen 4 years ago 5
God Bless Grant, Lincoln, McKinley, and ALL our UNION heroes -- God Bless the USA!
frphilipmullen 4 years ago 3
hero
BadAmarican 4 years ago 4
i feel that as and insult hero isn't a good enough word to praise Grant make a better one even if you have to make it up make a word that praises grant more
Bati1307 4 years ago 2
My favorite song! I like it better than the Star
spangled Banner.
Thx1138d 4 years ago 2
Yes this is a real kick-ass song. So is "Stars and Stripes Forever".
pytko3 4 years ago
The best finish of any of our national songs.
DuckCasey 4 years ago
Just beautiful.
bobmac31 4 years ago
The Union FOREVER!!! Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom!
useagle1990 4 years ago 9
Ladies and Gentlemen! America's Greatest General! Ulysses Simpson Grant!!!
Rock5482000 4 years ago 4
Right on.
eringobragh915 4 years ago
Err...that's what I was saying. By we I mean The United States of America (today's country and the TRUE Country).
MMusashi7 4 years ago
Actually ignore the comment below me other wise a whole big fight is gonna begin against me and how im stupid.
queenice1 4 years ago
Fear not, I don't allow whole big stupid fights in the comments section of my videos. Offensive comment has been removed.
eringobragh915 4 years ago
Is any one related to him? if u are respond on my page. He is my Great Great Great Great Great Great Uncle. Hes on my great grandmothers side of the family. And look i dont give a damn if u dont belive me i mean seriously if someone told me they were related to george washington i wouldent belive them. please dont reply to this comment. and no im not pulling a prank! And i must say im still a kid. :)
queenice1 4 years ago
yo
ime english but my dads american and his mum is a descendant of grants. i think her maiden name was partridge but u probs no more than me about it.
mdetzler 4 years ago
he says Grant was a very good strategist and tactic. All its predecessors were only on its renown from. With Sherman, Sheridan and Thomas, it had capable subordinate. Also the professor J. Chamberlain was a smart general.
ThePatrioticPotatos 4 years ago
Grant war ein sehr guter Stratege und Taktiker. Alle seine Vorgänger waren nur auf ihren Ruhm aus. Mit Sherman, Sheridan und Thomas hatte er fähige Untergebene. Auch der Professor J. Chamberlain war ein kluger General.
caipatric 4 years ago 2
English, anyone? Hey, I can't tell whether you're respecting him or dissing him here!
eringobragh915 4 years ago
I took enough german to recognise a compliment...
crocostimpy 4 years ago
He is basically saying that good strategist and tactitian and that Sherman, Sheridan and Thomas were capable subordinates. Chamberlain was also a good general. Nothing to argue about.
rexlibris99 3 years ago
U.S. Grant is so cool he doesnt even give a fuck if u take his picture! He was a hell of a man!!! God save the union!!!
Smitheeboy94 4 years ago 2
pure hero
bullyboy1863 4 years ago 3
thats not enough words to praise Grant I think they need to wright a book about how great he was Lincoln was the great Emancipator but Grant was the great general
Bati1307 4 years ago 4
thx m8
Fall3nSoul21 4 years ago
God save the South!
ThePatrioticPotatos 4 years ago
He did save it!!
gengrant3 4 years ago 2
The North did save the South! You're Welcome!
MMusashi7 4 years ago
How exactly did they do that?
vilaboastream 4 years ago
Well, if the South didn't return to The Union, we would've lost World War II along with some other things!
MMusashi7 4 years ago 2
Quote......"Get me Grant...!!!said by Abraham Lincoln....
BROCOCK 4 years ago 2
I really like this video, the pictures and music are relaxing if you're a Yankee like me...I posted a vid of Grant's first Galena home, the one he was renting when the war began...
crocostimpy 4 years ago
I'm not a Yankee, but I still enjoy it. Though a Kentuckian with Virginian heritage, I would have maintained loyalty to the Union. Without the Union, we would have nothing.
lcplsexton 4 years ago 2
Virginia and N.Carolina are the only states I felt sorry for when their cities where destroyed one barely voted for secession the other broke into two states because of it
Bati1307 3 years ago
Hail, Hail, America we love you!
MMusashi7 4 years ago 2
dang. i was hoping for a voice recording of Mr. Grant, but that would be pushing it lol since he is sooooo far back
i could only reach benjamin harrison
madmonkey756 4 years ago
Few people today realize that Grant was one of the few Union commanders that acctually cared about the plight of the blacks.
pytko3 4 years ago
Thank you. I only wish I knew who sings it...
eringobragh915 4 years ago
The Robert Shaw Chorale
rexlibris99 4 years ago
I don't think so... at least, I can't find a version of it online with an audio sample that sounds like this version. Similar, but not the same one.
eringobragh915 4 years ago
I found the same one with Shaw. It is just incomplete.
rexlibris99 3 years ago
Awesome! just Awesome.
useagle1990 4 years ago
"And, we'll rally 'round the flag, boys, rally once again, shouting the battle cry of freedom!", this song is so inspiring!
GettysburgGhost1863 4 years ago 6