Are you ignoring Cold Harbor?

@@savanahmclary4465 cold harbor was not meant to be won it was more of a delaying action

@@savanahmclary4465 And that was the only battle he had ever lost.

He endured many loses in his life.

All slander by southern Lost cause apologists.

Agailius I don’t understand your comment. I would think that all Americans would look at the Civil War with regret and be glad that the war ended with the Union restored. Grant was a major reason that this came to pass. I would think that all Americans irrespective of which side of the conflict their ancestors were on would be glad that Grant helped restore the Union. Grant made a huge contribution to the healing of the country during the eight years of his presidency. Thus feelings of patriotism regarding Grant should come naturally to any American without reference to one’s ancestors.

@@emmgeevideo You know what? You're right. Thanks. Grant hated the war more than anyone. Which was why he focused on *ending* it.

Do you hate your traitor blood?

@@7ount *...Bit* of an odd question to ask, but I obviously think it's an abominable and dehumanizing practice.

@@7ount And I acknowledge that they fought for the morally inferior cause.

@James Reilly Mark Twain. One of the most read of American Authors. Far more than anything that Crooked Donald Trump ever had Ghost Written for him.

@James Reilly Not true. Grant wrote his own memoirs. Twain was his publisher. There is no evidence to support your claim.

James Reilly - Wrong. The original manuscript exists and historian Ron Chernow verified that they are written in Grant’s hand.

@James Reilly You're a liar. What propels you to lie like this.

Yes. He came down with throat cancer. Probably due to all that "ceegar" he swallowed.

Cept it seems one of his own kids was Bernie madoff to him...

They sure do.

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My 3rd great uncle did too! He was a 1st sergeant in Company G, 28th Illinois Infantry.

@@mr.aldini6801 your great uncle and my grandfather fought side by side then my 3rd great grandfather was in company B of the 16th Wisconsin he was the very first engaged that morning on picket duty far out front. The 28th was to the left of prentiss division I believe the 28th was attached to hurlbuts 4th division. Was your great uncle stuck in the Hornets nest and captured? My family lore and a old diary stated my grandfather barely escaped getting trapped there he fought with some other to the left of the Hornets nest along the river by bloody pond before retiring to the rear after the end of action the first day

@@bf7504 I know he didn't get captured, because he went on to fight in about six more battles, ending with the Battle of Fort Blakely. I'll have to dig a little deeper.

@@mr.aldini6801 so one of the few who escaped the Hornets nest then. Who know probably fought right alongside my relative. It's sad the battle isnt mentioned in civil war history much given its brutality and pivotal importance I hope you get a chance to visit and walk the battlefield it puts it into importance. My 3rd great grandfather was medically discharged in September of 1862 after battling intestinal ailments since his enlistment he returned home to Michigan where him and his younger brother helped runaway slaves escape into Canada till about 1864. He returned to his farm in Isabella county till he passed in 1912.

@@bf7504 my uncle David Dodds had not been in the country long before signing up (came from County Down, Ireland), and he was discharged in 1866, settling down to a farm outside of Rushville, Illinois - dying in 1915.

No doubt Gen. Lee was the most beloved officer in the history of the world. Grant had better resources but much of his army could not speak English. You should read his memoirs. Also, Memoirs of a Confederate by E.P. Alexander. COL Lee freed of of his father in laws slaves at Arlington House. But most stayed on as they had nowhere to go. He implored Davis to free them all and train them as soldiers should they desire. So did Stonewall urge Davis. James Long street too. You cannot understand the American soul without understanding the Civil War. I am so glad that the last thing that went through Booth's neck before SGT Boston Corbett's bullet was that he was the most hated man in America. Had Lincoln had not been murdered history would have been better.

He was not great. Considering how rag-tag, outnumbered and starving the Army of Northern Virginia was, a good general could have defeated it with much less casualties. The Battle of Cold Harbor was too pathetic.

@@SethCallahan871 James, "Sam" Grant was not sometimes called THE BUTCHER for nothing. No doubt Lee's rebel army was pretty, as you say, rag tag by then. However, they were all veterans. All of the rebel deserters were gone by then. And they knew the ground. And that ground for most of them was their home. Grant's forces, not the cavalry was polyglot and half were 5 weeks ago off the boat from Europe. Most of at least half of them had one month of training. I would expect the recent immigrants to have very high casualties. Grant was there to win before all chaos took place in the North. He mentions this in his memoirs. Be that as it may, he had his orders from Lincoln and knew Lincoln's concerns to force a surrender post haste. He was a great general because he completed his objectives of forcing a surrender of the Army of N. VA. He did just that and had 5,000 rations and medical care for the rebels. He brought the war to a close. That, in lieu of any other factor redered him great.I don't like to second guess the command.

@@SethCallahan871 you are an idiot.

I just read his letters he exchanged with Gen. Lee at Appomattox and as you know his terms of surrender were generous. I have much more respect for him than I do Sherman.

Yes. I too am a CONFEDERATE sympathizer. (Secessionist). However, it seems that Grant had no particular personal malice towards the people of the South, (unlike sherman), he was just conducting his job as an agent of the War(monger) Dpt. He gave generous terms to those who surrendered,(where allowed). R.I.P.

@@lestergillis8171 he wasn't a warmonger , the south started it and he finished it.

@@carollathrop7566 "The South did not start anything". During his inauguration speech, Jefferson Davis made it abundantly clear that all they wanted was to be left alone. Lincoln would have nothing to do with secession.

@@lestergillis8171 Fort Sumpter was what a picnic?

@@carollathrop7566 The Confederacy sent messages to Lincoln in order to arrange for hand-over of federal properties. He REFUSED to recognize any of those emissaries. Instead, Lincoln sent naval reinforcements there. The Confederacy warned them against that. They attempted that anyway. The rest is history.

he was a great general but not as good at president.

@@bruhfunny6093 and at first and for a while he was a horrible general and human until Lincoln put him in his place but still not enough. That came in ...death.

Thank you mr Grant you was a constitutional enforcer this country need a man like you then an this country needs a man like you now constitution today constitution tomorrow constitution forever

Probably the greatest !

No Washington was the Greatest otherwise you'd be still under the thumb of us Brits !!!!

@@IanP1963 Even if Washington died during the war, the revolution would have soldiered on. Independence was inevitable. We Americans are not Canadians.

Pee Wee Herman could have won with the men and materials Grant had.

@@josephcockburn1402 As Grant pointed out, the Federals were fighting an offensive war, in hostile territory, against an enemy that could stay on the defensive. Also, the Confederates didn't have to win the war, rather all they had to do was continue fighting and maintain a central government until the U.S. offered a treaty. This how the U.S. won independence in the Revolutionary War against the greatest military power in the world. This is how North Vietnam won the Vietnam war: Don't give up. Drag it out for over a decade. Sign a treaty. There are lessons here. Who do you think will take over Afghanistan once the US finally leaves after 20 years? Of course. Did the terrorist extremest defeat both the US and USSR? No. They just didn't lose.

Robert Hendrickson - That wasn’t his real name though was it. Ulysses Hiram Grant was his correct name if memory serves. Agree with everything else you’ve said.

Actually, it was Hiram Ulysses Grant

@James Reilly A clerical error that stuck...

@@nickroberts6984 Like Oprah!

@@rokerroar Wasn't his nickname Sam? U.S. Grant....United States Grant or Unconditional Surrender Grant?

IMHO, Grant was a much better writer than Hemingway and he told a much more interesting story.

I didn't realize until I read the Chernow book just how ingenious and influential the Vicksburg campaign was. Sherman was more consistenly successful than Grant over the last year of the war, but that was largely because the terrain and opposition he faced gave him more opportunities to apply the lessons of Vicksburg.

Agreed! I’m reading the book now!

Are you the agent for RC? Have the book on by bedside table! No a book to go to sleep by, too good!

Nothing great about Grant

Just finished it what a read ...

Grant would have loved TRUMP right?

@FOS7777 to a degree I understand, different styles. But you know? I think Grant probably appreciated generals with styles different than his own. So, Grant was a man of Honor, did what he said he would do. Trump is doing what he said he would do. Read em and weep, fool.

M. Stanley No.

@@GoodmanMIke59 don't you dare and put Grant and Trump in the same sentence. Trump will never be the great man Grant was. Ever!

@@GoodmanMIke59 Grant appreciated generals that didn't have bone spurs.

But it is not just any 'Little White Substance'!

the gov't could just put bleach in water and call it cocaine water. no one is supposed to use it anyhow, so who cares if it's the real thing...

I sense that you are a chronic pain sufferer or you know someone who is. I was severely injured in a patrol car accident. It is amazing to me that in order to do something about the heroin and fentanyl epidemic they limit my chronic pain medication. They being the federal government. it makes as much sense as outlawing rocks because Cain killed Abel with one!

@brt123: hey, pull the same BS on innocent gun owners when there is a mass shooting: THEY are held responsible for the acts of another. We should go all in and require that all men be castrated because one man raped a woman somewhere. Lunacy....

SongSwan the substance was check because of posterity no other reason.

Grant also signed into law, that Government would be closed on the weekend. Saturday to do all things so by Sunday a family could observe the Holy Day on Sunday to worship God.

And blm call him racist! Deface his statue.!

Appomattox

@@nickroberts6984 thanks for the correction.You know me and Malaysians are fascinated and wanted to know more about the American Civil War.

And he was honored for his kindness with John Wilkes Booth murdering Lincoln a few days later with a bullet in his brain. Too bad that Booth didn't take one in his brain.

Appomattox Appomattox not Oppomattox its a small village in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

@Oma Cool family immigrated from Germany. Homestead in a tiny town in outstate Nebraska called Welfleet. Sound familiar? Grandfather was born there in 1891. Had 11 brothers and sisters.

shiloh6519. Good catch.

Really? No Tobacco grown in Virginia.

@@chrisgordon5719 Yes but I'm sure you can buy cigars there

Thank him for what?

Fire water😛

Grant probably had Tongue and Throat Cancer because of all the big fat Stogies he smoked.

@@josephcockburn1402For making sure that The Confederacy LOST the Civil War? Isn't that enough for you Jonny Reb?

@@chrisgordon5719 being that it wasn't over slavery why was it good they lost?

I knew Tim Grant .