Ulysses S. Grant, if the big title, but modest, whose early life was no indication of the size that would achieve. Its origins were friendly, the son of a tanner in Point Pleasant, Ohio, was a retired guy, short and thin, but with horses unnatural position. His father, lobbying their local U.S. congressman for an appointment to West Point, which was duly received, Grant Participation in 1839. His time at West Point has been a poor year, hasdisdains science, which only really happy when he put up with the horses, completed anonymously in the middle class, not land the duty of chivalry he wanted. Rather, he was assigned as regimental quartermaster and fight in Mexico - American Revolutionary War (1846-1848) under Generals Taylor and Scott. Although actually in the back, monitor and manage inventory, Grant actually saw action and marked himself as a brave and daring young officer.Equally important to his career after he was driven by a keen observer and lover of the theater and watched as the generals led operations and business. Also of note is despised, he, what was the war, thought it unjust and morally questionable, but went beyond duty. Later, it would be that, even if a man is not completely agree with the reason and purpose of the war, it is better that he will participate, the better, wars, plagues and famines, as a lawyeract as obstructionist to a war already begun.
At the end of the Mexican War, he moved though a series of inconspicuous places, gaining promotion to captain in 1854 and then took out his duties and retired to the family farm of his wife, whose father was an owner of plantations in the south. He married Julia Dent in 1848, would have four children, three boys and a girl. He failed as a farmer, turning the handle of a series of activities, including exchangeCollect, real estate and sale of firewood in the streets of St. Louis, which has not been started. In 1860, almost forty years, was forced to ask his father a job and was employed in a leather shop in Galena, with the brother of his boss. The outbreak of the Civil War was to completely change his luck that the only city of West Point, was elected to a national debate on the session to increase troops. He was awakened something in him,decided to return to the army, hoping to get a new job, but had to settle for the control of the Illinois volunteers. He hit the ground running, winning a small battle at Belmont, Missouri, and then capture two important allies strong - Fort Henry and Fort Donelson. This made him a national figure during the night, the recordings were strong from the north of the first successes since the war began. He had earned his spurs and his distinctive style was born - followed,fearless, sober and clear. There was, however, many critics noting that it is still the best general of the South who were in the western theater of the operating system in the face of war, above all, had not yet come against General Robert Lee's boys.
In fact, his first impression of Western theater was bittersweet, in the battle of Shiloh was surprised and driven back at first, but he kept his head and won the second day, when the battle was the scene of the terribleLosses. The first reaction was very critical of Grant, many reports that he was drunk and that was actually his second in command, General Buell, who had gathered the troops. Many pressures of the White House away for Grant, but Lincoln says refusesd know - "I can not save this man, he fights." However, Grant was placed on the hierarchy, as Halleck took control of the armies of Grant, demoting him second in command. When Halleck was appointed general in chief of the promotedAll the armies of the Union, the control re-financing. Many believe, in retrospect, that the idea behind the Union victory at the Battle of Shiloh, Buell, was in both cases, Grant had learned a lesson about preparation, which serve him well for the duration of the war. In winter 1862-1863, in an attempt to Vicksburg, Mississippi, take Grant took his army across the wetlands of the region for which he was humiliated in the media, many commentators are labeling him a drunkard and his advisers Sheridana madman. However, his strategy is now seen as masterful, and marched his troops on the west side of the Mississippi, crossed the river, and moved inside to challenge all conventional military principles, detached from its connections. They operate behind enemy lines, continued to travel and not give as the possibility of the Confederates to concentrate their forces against him, took the city of Jackson, Mississippi, and then the line broke after Vicksburg. He then defeatedThe Southern Champion Hill, Vicksburg, forced, laid siege, with the city six weeks later. It 'was a major victory in two halves split of the Confederation, and that the Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg the previous day are widely regarded as the turning point of the war.
Lincoln promoted Grant to the Union in all armies of the Appalachians and the Mississippi command. His first task was to remove the Union forces in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where hewere surrounded on three sides by Confederate Braxton Bragg. He has managed, even if credit to George Thomas of mass veterans' who made heroic and miraculously, against all odds take Missionary Ridge, and efficient routing of the Confederate pave the way for the invasion of Atlanta, Georgia, and the heart of confederation are given. It confirms convinced Lincoln that Grant was her man, March 1864, appointed him lieutenant general in command of the wholeUnion Army. Grant devised a strategy that would meet in the heart of the Confederation from multiple directions. Grant, Meade and Butler would be against Lee in Richmond, Virginia to move, Sigel was to attack the Shenandoah Valley, Sherman had taken Atlanta, Crook and Averell were operating in West Virginia and the banks was to move against Mobile, Alabama . In coordination as a main strategy was Grant's territory, the development of the first concepts of total war. Also, put the two largeGenerals Grant and Lee, one against the other, are meeting to May 1, 1864 in what became known as the Battle of the Wilderness. It was the beginning of six weeks of continuous and intense battles mark, with Grant tried continuously, and every time Lee, Lee manages to defeat him overtake. For 100 miles have been set up to be so tired before the two armies in a siege of Petersburg. Grant was uphill, the line stretched for more than 50 miles with Leeonly 35,000 people (many older men and boys) to give 125 000 men. In addition, Atlanta and Sherman began his historic march to Savannah. Lee's forces were stretched, no longer able to maintain its lines, went on the run, Richmond fell to the Yankees. Lee's army to the west by Union forces hot on their heels, retreating after nine days, Lee surrendered his army, April 9, 1865 at Appomattox Court House. Grant did not set the boatto, has offered generous terms that recognize the importance of maintaining the pride of the south that the two would need each other in rebuilding the nation.
After the war, Congress has appointed Grant, General United States Army and in 1868 won the presidential elections, remarkable is his first elected office was. However, his political career was far from being as bright as his army. He appointed cronies to much higher contributions and therefore was left with a closetWho were incompetent and unqualified. His government was corrupt, but was largely kept from public view, and Grant has been successfully re-elected for a second term. However, a number of scandals began to unfold and come to light during his second term, compounding an already weak presidency negative criticism. In 1877 he began an epic world tour for two years after his return, he sought the Republican nomination for a third term as president, but he managed to block it.Tragically, he was cheated of his finances and then found himself almost penniless and terrifying, he discovered he was suffering from throat cancer. But the steel nor why he had started to write his memoirs, which was completed days before his death, was a bestseller, so his family, is also celebrated as a literary masterpiece.
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