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17. Apr. 2009 · As the byproduct of a string of battlefield victories, he forced the unconditional surrender of three enemy armies, something no other general officer in American history ever accomplished — not Dwight Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, George Washington or Winfield Scott.
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April 9th, 1865, was the end of the Civil War for General Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. For Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant and tens of thousands of Federal and Confederate troops fighting further south, the war stretched out for several more months.
The terms of surrender, however, would be a simple gentlemen’s agreement. Healing the country, rather than vengeance, directed Grant’s and the Lincoln administration’s actions. There would ...
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Hiram Ulysses Grant (he became known as Ulysses S. Grant because of a mistake on his West Point recommendation letter) graduated from West Point in 1843, an indifferent student ranked 21 out of 39 students. Despite early success in the Mexican-American War, Grant spent years in desolate Army outposts (where his loneliness led to the drinking that w...
After the outbreak of war in April 1861, Grant eagerly joined, taking command of an Illinois volunteer regiment. His first success came later that year when he captured Paducah, Kentucky. He was promoted to brigadier general in July 1861 and in early 1862 began closing in on two Confederate strongholds in western Tennessee. On February 6, Fort Henr...
The North, desperate for a victory, immediately took to Grant. Newspapers heralded his success, nicknaming him “Unconditional Surrender” Grant. Accounts of Grant calmly smoking a cigar during his meetings with Buckner led to thousands of grateful Northerners sending them as gifts — with the unintended consequence of worsening the smoking addiction ...
In July 1863, as the Battle of Gettysburg raged on in the East, Grant captured the key Confederate port at Vicksburg, Mississippi after a 47-day siege. His counterpart, Lieutenant General John Pemberton, surrendered on July 4, correctly hoping that he could extract sympathetic terms from Grant on America’s Independence Day. Although Grant captured ...
Following his two controversial, scandal-plagued terms as president, Grant retired to New York, where he died in July 1885, aged 63. Among his pallbearers were several Union generals who had fought closely by his side during the war, including William Tecumseh Shermanand Philip Sheridan. Perhaps more surprising were two former Confederate generals ...
Throughout the Civil War, Grant's armies incurred approximately 154,000 casualties, while having inflicted 191,000 casualties on his opposing Confederate armies. [3] In terms of success, Grant was the only general during the Civil War who received the surrender of three Confederate armies. [2]
Soon cornered, short of food and supplies and outnumbered, Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Grant on April 9, 1865, at the McLean House near the Appomattox Court House, Virginia. Background. Military situation.
