12/14/2023 0 Comments Excerpt battle cry of freedomThe politician General John McClernand took the opportunity of the occasion and began congratulating the men for their great victory, as if he were politicking on a soapbox. Grant lost the discipline of his men and even that of his officers at Belmont.The Billy Yanks had turned their attention away from fighting to celebration too soon. Bands began to celebrate playing “Yankee Doodle” and “The Star Spangled Banner”. His troops began to search through the Confederate tents looking for souvenirs, trophies, and whatever they might help themselves to. As the Yankees took the rebel camp at Belmont Grant lost control of his men.He first had great success in the morning by driving the Rebels out of their camp. Grant led his men at the Battle of Belmont on November 7, 1861. Grant took five regiments, two companies of cavalry, and a battery of six cannons from Cairo, Illinois down the Mississippi River in six steamers supported by two timberclads to his first actual fighting experience of the Civil War at Belmont, Missouri. On November 6, 1861, Brigadier General Ulysses S.Grant did not like office work, he wanted to be in camp or field with his men, but he would work alone into the wee hours of the night writing out orders, communications, and other administrative chores. Grant was a fine writer and that Grant’s autobiography Personal Memoirs, which he wrote at the end of his life and which Twain helped to publish, was the best example of military prose since Julius Caesar’s Commentaries. If Grant had to rise from a table while he was working to get a paper or document from someplace else in the room, then he would remain in a hunched posture as if he were still seated in his desk chair while he went to get the item he needed. He could focus and center his mind strongly on a task. Grant had a great ability to concentrate.Grant once explained why he chose not to swear, “I have always noticed… that swearing helps to rouse a man’s anger and when a man flies into passion his adversary who keeps cool always gets the better of him.” Rawlins, both of whom could peel paint with their colorful and frequent swearing. Grant did not swear, a great contrast to General William Tecumseh Sherman and Grant’s staff member John A. Grant would not tell a dirty or profane story, but he would listen to such stories when told by others and he seemed to enjoy them.When he was with people he believed he could trust, like with his staff, he would open up some and tell entertaining stories, most likely while whittling away on a piece of wood with a pocketknife. Grant was a man with an economy of words, he spoke only when needed and then in the shortest and most direct way possible while still accurately conveying what he wanted to say. A Sampling Of Stories From Vicksburg An Introduction To Ulysses S. It means hog and hominy without limit, fresh troops from all the states of the far South, and a cotton country where they can raise the staple without interference.” Lincoln knew Vicksburg was the key. President Abraham Lincoln correctly said, “We can take all the northern ports of the Confederacy, and they can defy us from Vicksburg. With Vicksburg and the Mississippi River in its control the Confederacy would have the backbone of transportation and resources required to successfully wage war against the Union. Loss of this railroad would greatly cripple the Confederacy’s war effort. The loss of Vicksburg would also mean the loss of the vital Southern Mississippi Railroad, another major supply route connecting the western and eastern sections of the Confederacy, which ran from Vicksburg through Jackson. ![]() The Confederacy would be cut in half as Confederate President Jefferson Davis said, with the western Confederate states of Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana and all their rich resources cut off and blocked from the Confederate armies and states to the east of the Mississippi River. Without Vicksburg and the Mississippi River transportation of vital food such as beef, hogs, corn, rice, and men, arms, ammunition, medicines, and clothing needed to provide the strong armies of Braxton Bragg and Robert E. Without possession of Vicksburg and control of the Mississippi River the Confederacy would be strangled, it would be deprived of food and fodder needed to supply its soldiers and war efforts in the east. If Grant could take Vicksburg and Port Hudson to the south, which comparatively would not be much of a challenge, then the Union would have control of the Mississippi River. Grant was on a campaign in 1863 to take Vicksburg, Mississippi. … Confederate President Jefferson Davis regarding Vicksburg. “the nailhead that held the South’s two halves together.”
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