Oh - my all time favorite story of Grant was when he took over the armies in the East. He and his staff were reconnoitering confederate positions and artillery. The confederate artillery started firing on them. A lower ranking officer rode up and said, "General, they are firing on us. We need to retreat." I guess Grant leaned over in his saddle, took a puff off of his cigar and replied, "Did it occur to you to fire back?"

@Robert-un7br

8 ай бұрын

Lee had whipped the Army of the Potomac so many times that they had a loser mentality and were afraid of him. There are other stories where officers showed their fear and Grant has to admonish them like this.

@user-ns5fl9zx2t

26 күн бұрын

تحيه للقائد والرئيس جرانت.... احد أبناء أمريكا الابرار

It is amazing how US Grant was at almost the right time and place for a former West Point Graduate to start as a Colonel and then a General in the Civil War. He was a long way from Washington D.C and its toxic politics. It allowed Grant the chance to develop his skills as a General and to learn how to win battles. Most people do not realize how hard it is to win battles. Luck was part of his success, but the top commanders on both sides were West Point graduates. The pool of potential commanders was limited. In any case, Grant's time in Missouri was a time of preparation before he appeared on the National stage in February 1862.

We researched and well acted. I was raised in Monroe County near Florida Missouri where Grant approached the Salt River. Missouri is rich with Civil War history. Far beyond what most people are taught in history classes.

@jongrant1215

Жыл бұрын

I lived in western Missouri- and there is a lot of Civil War history and battlefields. It is fascinating. The actor was excellent. I rather think U.S. Grant talked that way.

I loved this video. Soldiers under Grant wrote that he had a voice of a clear bell. This actor helped me understand

As a boy in the 60's I remember my Great Grandmother speaking of the anger and hate our family had of that time in Missouri.

@fredmichel8974

Жыл бұрын

Hate of what?

@Geoduck.

Жыл бұрын

Hate of the violence and killings that took place. She was not alive at that time just stories her mother told of it.

@mechcavandy986

Жыл бұрын

My 2x grandmother hated Grant. One of his gunboats on the Mississippi out a cannonball into her house!

@Quantrills.Raiders

Ай бұрын

@@mechcavandy986 if she wouldve kept that cannonball youd be a millionare today lol

Great vid/performance. Mexico is the county seat where I grew up. Ive always thought that Grants epiphany outside of Florida has been highly underrated. That epiphany greatly influenced his command decision making process.

@johnfleet235

Жыл бұрын

Grant learned from every battle and every campaign. Many Generals on both sides did not learn from their mistakes.

@ehrldawg

Жыл бұрын

@@johnfleet235 That is soo true !!

@davidtuttle7556

Жыл бұрын

@@johnfleet235 or they learned the wrong lessons from their successes.

Excellent. Having read Grant's memoirs, much of the monologue comes directly from his book. The setup similarly so. One thing perhaps is that Grant didn't normally wear officer shoulder straps. He preferred a private's outer jacket. Also, Mark Twain wrote that he was part of a hastily formed and partly drunk Hannibal company that skedaddled at this time, later learning it had been from Grant. Thanks for this wonderful info. I didn't know White Haven is a national site.

The Missourians never surrender.

I thought this enactment inauthentic at the beginning of it, but it soon became genuine and immersive.

@MrDEWaters

Жыл бұрын

I live near the Grant home in St. Louis County, MO. The accent of his re-enactor sounds too southern, considering that he was born and raised in Ohio.

Thanks for the story!

@missourihumanities

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

very good video. Cut out the annoying muscovy.

2:54, Well, General Grant didn't capture the whole Confederate garrison! But in fact, General Nathan Bedford Forrest escaped with his cavalry!

@rooseveltbarfield3167

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunate error

Damn, I watched this whole thing to hear about Belmont/Columbus (near where I grew up), and I don’t think Belmont was even mentioned.

Missouri Has Always Been A Problem !!!

@rooseveltbarfield3167

Жыл бұрын

The Mississippi of the midwest

Thank you

My god this is well done.

White Haven is known as Grant's Farm on the signage to it. Is or was the home of the world famous Budweiser Clydesdales.

Interesting. Jefferson City is where I now believe both my 2nd and 3rd great grandfathers served out of. Both of whom died during the civil war at 41 and 74 years of age. One just at the beginning and the other at the end.

Of course we'll never know but I wonder how authentic this gentlemans' "southern accent" is compared to how Grant actually sounded.

@jeffreymcfadden9403

Жыл бұрын

Grant was born and raised on the north bank of the OHIO river. Southern OHIO can generate some southern sounding accents.

@gltff

Жыл бұрын

@@jeffreymcfadden9403 I was raised on the north bank of the Ohio river, and I've lived in Alabama since 1978. My cousins in Ohio think I sound sort of southern, but people here know I'm not from Alabama but can't place my accent. I once had a client who was a linguist at the University of Iowa who specialized in regional American accents. The first time I talked to her she told me that even though I lived in Birmingham, she could tell by my accent I was from southern Ohio or northern Kentucky, Cool.

@kennethmitchell6623

Жыл бұрын

@@jeffreymcfadden9403 and how many years did Grant live in the northern part of Illinois?

Just remember that the city of St Louis does NOT belong to a county ..... St Louis County does NOT include the City of St Louis.

“…the MOST of which…”

Did Rollins accompany you into Missouri? When did he join your staff?

@alexheady7887

Жыл бұрын

Wasn’t he there from the start?

Fights, not fight’s

I can't finish watching this ... if you can't get even the simple fact right of how many stars of a general he was then you just didn't do your homework. It took an act of Congress to give Grant his third and final star, so that he equaled the rank Washington attained. But in this video the first glimpse we get out of the actor he has four stars on his shoulder bars

@johnfleet235

Жыл бұрын

I think the actor is portraying Grant recounting his Civil War experiences long after the war ended. But that time he had four stars.

@grathian

Жыл бұрын

On 25 July 1866, the U.S. Congress established the rank of "General of the Army of the United States" for General Ulysses S. Grant. His pay was "four hundred dollars per month, and his allowance for fuel and quarters", except "when his headquarters are in Washington, shall be at the rate of three hundred dollars per month."[5] (His combined monthly pay and allowance of seven hundred dollars in 1866 is equivalent to $13,000 in 2021). When appointed General of the Army, Grant wore the rank insignia of four stars and coat buttons arranged in three groups of four.

I really liked the actor playing Grant.

I'm a southerner who's 3X Grandfather and uncle fought for the 34th NC Inf. Co.G. Both were wounded at Chancellorsville and my grandfather died 5 days later. Considering the odds stacks against the Confederacy, Lee and Jackson had no equal as a duo. But at the foot stone of the Confederate memorial that has my ancestors names is a quote from U.S. Grant and how he threatened to level Washington with the victorious Union army if one gray hair of Robert E. Lee's head was harmed from those that sought his death for treason. Over the years I've gained a lot of respect for Grant. How he treated the men after Lee surrendered was honorable.

@kennethmitchell6623

Жыл бұрын

Tactically, logistically, and strategically Grant was a better general than Lee. Bottom line - who surrendered? Don't dip into the 'Lost Cause " garbage either.

@marchess286

Ай бұрын

Grant threatened to resign from the army after the war if Lee was prosecuted because he had given him a promise of immunity on the authority of Lincoln. But the idea that Grant would threaten to lead the US Army in mutiny and destroy Washington is absurd.

grant fought for the wrong side

Cape Girardeau, home of Rush Limbaugh

Grant was a yankee. He didnt have a southern drawl.

"Fight's"?

Why possessive form?

Arguably the greatest General America has produced

@richty3845

2 күн бұрын

He was and is a joke. Missouri fought him as the invader he was.

@localkiwi9988

2 күн бұрын

@@richty3845 Sounds like you the Joke. 30,000 fought for the south and a 109,000 fought for the north. Sounds like Missouri was more for the North. I think you need to get your head out of the sand

Why did you leave out Grant freeing a slave his wife owned given to them by her father. He was flat broke and could have sold the slave for a large sum.

Great Acting.

Grant was one of the first former presidents whose actual voice was recorded. This otherwise fine actor in this movie with a Tennessee accent does not sound like Grant. The real Grant had a sort of political false-hearted sounding voice, very much like President Eisenhower at his worst. In view of Grant's tremendous skill in warfare, we would expect a more sincere-sounding voice coming from the real Grant. In any case, the actor's whining, grinding voice is as insulting to the memory of the country's greatest soldier as is Grant's own voice.

Grant was a northerner, and did not speak with a Southern accent, as portrayed here.

He and Julia owned slaves? Remarkable! 🙀🙀

@alanaadams7440

Жыл бұрын

Julia inherited the slaves from her father

Must have been portrayed as one of the few times Gen Grant was sober.

UnderSatanAll

Julia Grant was one homely woman. Wow! ( It's a wonder he didn't make her wear a burka.)

not historically accurate. he only mentioned ironton for a second. how could you not mention you were promoted to general there?