Ulysses Grant

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Ulysses Grant

• Cadet William Garrett

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Ulysses S. Grants Character

• Ulysses Grant, the legendary quiet man in
  conversationusually sat rather silently, perhaps
  puffing on a cigarHowever, with trusted friends,
  he would open up. When he did, people listened,
  for his words were thoughtful and full of
  good-natured common sense (Maihafer 16).

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Grants Leadership

• The Character of Ulysses Grant can best be
  applied to the battle of Vicksburg by studying
  three aspects of his leadership.
• These three aspects of his leadership contribute
  directly to understanding what kind of man
  Ulysses Grant was.

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Three Aspects of U.S.Grants Leadership

• How General Grant dealt with his political
  enemies and superior officers in the North during
  the battle of Vicksburg?
• How General Grant treated his solders and his
  regard for the welfare of civilians?

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Three Aspects of U.S.Grants Leadership

• How General Grant dealt with the Confederate Army
  while being trapped and outnumbered?

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Grants Superiors and Political Enemies

• General Grants Superiors
• - McClernards Reprimand and Succession
• - Colonel Murphys Cowardice
• - General Grants Ideas on Political Commanders

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Grants Superiors and Political Enemies

• General Grants Enemies
• - Accused of Idleness and his response
• - The Norths support of the War
• - General Grants ideas on Civil War

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Grants Treatment of His Soldiers and Civilians

• General Grants Treatment of Civilians.
• - People of Oxford and food
• - Treatment of Black Slaves
• - General Grants treatment of a captor

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Grants Treatment of His Soldiers and Civilians

• General Grants Treatment of Soldiers.
• - Solders Idleness
• - Lesson on Supplies from Country
• - Grants Condition in the field

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Grants Campaign In The South

• General Grants foresight into The Battle of
  Vicksburg.
• Defines Key Problem of Vicksburg Campaign
• General Grants Change of Plan
• Cut Lose Communication

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Grants Campaign In The South

• General Grants Ideas on War.
• General Grants Ideas on the Press in War
• General Grants Ideas on Commanders
• General Grants Ideas on doing ones duty

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The Effectiveness of Grants Campaign

• Grant would not leave the leadership of this
  expedition to any subordinate.
• Failure in this campaign meant complete
  annihilation.
• He cut himself off from all supplies and lived
  off the country.

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The Army Values

• General Grants movement towards Vicksburg was
  daring, dramatic, perilous, but very effective.
  His personality is best described with the army
  values
• Duty
• Personal Courage
• Self-less Service

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Sources

• Grant, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs. New York
  Penguin Books, 1999
• Maihafer, Harry J. The General and The
  Journalists. Dullas Brasseys Inc., 1998

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