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...art at his father who was trying to use his connentions to his son to swing buisiness deals embarrassing grant . jesse grant was tying to get the hides of the cattle slaughterd for the armys food . th...
...ng that Hitler acquired German nationality only in the thirties. By that time's German laws was it OK to grant it to him given that he had a history as a convicted criminal? Why wasn't Hitler as a for...
Sorry, but I can't seem to find the message board.
Anyone else having the same problem?
The following is a post that I snipped lo these many years ago discussing the relative merits of Lee and Grant. This was written by the late Paul Cowan, one of the first members on the alt Civil War n
I am writing a paper for my history class and was trying to compare Grant's prewar experiences with those of other Union commanders. Grant was unsuccessful in civilian life compare to McClellan and it
...le they were occupying. What I don't know is how the German soldiers acted in the conquered territories. Granted that the Einsatz Gruppen and many SS units weren't nice to put it mildly but, was there...
... this the only major movement towards then?
And finally, was the Union's repeater policy shortsighted? Granted we have the advantage of hindsight, but had repeaters been widely issued to both infant...
This little quote comes from Clifford Dowdey:
'History talks about how great General Grant was. I tell you he was not better than his predecessors. He had numbers, industrial might, and the financia
...realize that there was a world of difference between these two men, but they had their similarities too. Grant had a far superior force to anything Hood could boast, but they had the same Damn the bul...
I have a question that has puzzled me for a long time and how to ask it, with sense? Well, after Gettys, Grant was with Meade the commanding general of the AoP. However, always it seems when the army
... of white population
ARW - Colonies - 12,500 out of 4,000,000 population = 0.25% of whole population
Granted, this is strictly from memory and not recently researched, but to match even the base A...
Requesting some general info about the Union draft. Could non-citizens or newly arrived immigrants be drafted? How about the bounty system whereby one could pay for someone else to take his
QUERY : 'Circular 31' discharges
Have run across references to end-of-war discharges granted in accordance of 'Circular 31.' I believe the Circular concerns discharges granted to wounded or furlough
...Creek, Sheridan drove Early off the field with 34% losses - but lost 10% of his own forces and more men. Grant beat Pemberton at Champion's Hill, inflicting 19% losses, but lost 8% himself.
Most of ...
...ter. Marshall explains this principle when he discusses the marked absence of the word 'express', in the grants of power under the US Constitution, as distinguished from grants of power under Article ...
... by various ethnic groups. *European reaction to the war *Immigration, how the war affected potential emigrants *Technological developments caused by the war *Media coverage (print journalism & photog...
...e additions during June and July. Am I wildly wrong with any figures or missing any large contingents?
Grant Meade 2, 5 and 6 corps 81,000 Burnside 9 corps 22,000
Sigel Valley 15,000
Crook West ...
What was Grants opinion and/or thoughts on McCellan? And what did McCellan think of Grant (do we know from any sources how Mac felt about Grant's ultimate promotion to commander, and what did he think
...I just bought G&G. I look forward to seeing it.
Also, any opinions on B. Cattons two vol. biography on Grant? I guess he took over where a deceased author, Lewis, left off.
Thanks,...
...gton, MA. (if you're curious about the names, I'm told that the 66th was primarily made up of German immigrants - Uncles Simon and Adolph were cigar makers in civilian life, too)
What I'd like to kn...
...in command, a Mexican war veteran, was Gideon Pillow, who was notoriously useless. (After the surrender, Grant learned that Pillow had escaped in a scow to avoid capture. Grant remarked that Pillow ne...
How much impact did Grant and Lee have on the development of their subordinates? How much could Jackson, Longstreet and Stuart accomplished if they had not fought under Lee? How much success would She
It was the summer of 1864 & the CSA was in an inexorable downhill spiral. Gen U. S. Grant was chasing Lee across Virginia. In the west Gen John B. Hood's Army of theTennessee was being ground into dus
Grant, though Gettysburg, Pickett's Charge? Malvern Hill?
...
BADEAU, Adam. Union officer. 1831-94. N.Y.
'. . . . He [Badeau] served in various consulates during Grant's term of office and later traveled through Europe with him [Grant]. Author of _Military ...
Really? I would think that the Confederates had a shorter line of supply, being that the battle was on their 'home court'.
Don Carlos Buell was apparently a competent Union general, who is sometimes credited with saving Grant's bacon at Shiloh. Despite that, he was relieved of command by Lincoln for what seemed to be poli
...generals.
One not need to 'love Lee' to write about him. Otherwise, based on your prolific writings on Grant, I guess you should 'show Grant some love' first.
True he lost fewer men, but he also l...
...orating along with his supply of manpower. Once the summer of 1863 came around, i think it was too late. Grant pretty much had Vicksburg and needed to only wait; a victory in PA wouldn't have changed ...
...t determine a real answere. Was there a point during the war that Lee concluded, before his surrender to Grant, that the CSA was not going to win and kept on fighting or did he beleive until the bitte...
... if he had left Richmond when Sherman invaded Georgia, it would have given us another year of war.'
US Grant - as quoted in Around the World with Grant Volume 2, page 627, by John R. Young, 1879. A ...
Except that Lee's losses from the Wilderness and Spotsylvania WERE replaced, for the most part. Lee entered the Peterburg defenses with around 63,000 men, very close to the number he had at the initia
At our LCWRT meeting thursday we heard of the misadventures of the 12th Pa. Cav. The unit was German immigrants who barely spoke English, Pa. Dutch soldiers whoreall didn't want to fight & other F tro
...islation would pass Congress and be signed by the President. Then the state legislature would pass a law granting title (if the state owned the property) or affirming title (if the land was privately ...
...a mistaken view.
During the convention one of the legislative powers the framers specifically rejected granting Congress was the right;
'to negative all laws passed by the several states contraven...
SO.........the winners get to write history...and read it too? ;-)
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(sent to Mr Huddleston...because I lost the original thread and address...and knew he might get a kick out of it ;-)..thanks fo
...led. There may have been devout mule drivers in Sherman's army, but I never saw one in the east. General Grant has given them credit for being able to swear a mule team out of the mud when it could no...
...he federals answer that negro slavery was a terrible injustice. It has been demonstrated that Lincoln flagrantly and repeatedly violated the Constitution. The federals answer that negro slavery was a ...
I keep reading conflicting reports on this man. Some statements say that his speeches are speeches of horror, that Johnson wanted to hang all traitors, which meant anyone and everyone who served the S
p. 57, 'Rawlins was a lawyer from Grant's hometown of Galena, Illinois. Dana wrote that he 'watches Grant day and night, and whenever he commits the folly of tasting liquor hastens to remind him' that
I am looking for information on Scottish immigrants who served in the forces of the Civil War. The NY Highlanders are well documented, but were there any other units in the Federal or CSA armies with
...ghly scattered, and needed to be concentrated before it could strike an effective blow. Catton felt that Grant did not take this sufficiently into account. Do you think this argument has any merit at ...
...rate leadership and quick thinking by the Union commander, an unknown brigadier general named Ulysses S. Grant, who immediately ordered a counter attack all along the Confederate lines, changed a vict...
.. . . There would be no trials of
More importantly, it meant that Grant and many other Americans were willing to forgive their former enemies. And by the 1970s or so, Americans would finally arrive
...ave allowed any such acts of treason to go on unchecked on Soviet soil for long. Maybe some of these immigrants disliked the communists like millions of other Russians but I do not think that it would...
...ave allowed any such acts of treason to go on unchecked on Soviet soil for long. Maybe some of these immigrants disliked the communists like millions of other Russians but I do not think that it would...
... to Scottsdale next week, but I have a couple of questions. One is that I can't remember ever reading of Grant's sense of humor. Had he one?
Thanks....
...he recent discussion on Kursk and the fact that it was not named a 'Hero City,' which Soviet cities were granted this honor. Also, what qualified a city for such status.
Rob Carter, S.J. Fairfield U...
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