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The companion volume to Stars in Their Courses, this marvelous account of Grant's siege of the Mississippi port of Vicksburg continues Foote's narrative of the great battles of the Civil War--culled from his massive three-volume history--recounting a campaign which Lincoln called "one of the most brilliant in the world."… (más)
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Haste made waste and Ulysses S. Grant knew it, but in this case the haste was unavoidable - unavoidable, that is, unless he was willing to take the risk of having another general win the prize he was after - because he was fighting two wars simultaneously: one against the Confederacy, or at any rate so much of its army as stood between him and Vicksburg, the blufftop river town that was his goal, and the other against a man who, like himself, wore blue.
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McClernand found no such thing, of course. All he found when at last he reached Memphis on December 29 were the empty docks his men had departed from, ten days ago under Sherman, and Grant's telegram, delayed eleven days in transmission. Nor did Grant's own plans, "all complete for weeks to come," work out as he had intended and predicted. In both cases - entirely in the former and largely in the latter - the cause could be summed up in three two-syllable nouns: Nathan Bedford Forrest.
"Court!" the admiral snorted. "I have no time to order courts. I can't blame an officer who puts his ship close to the enemy. Is there any other vessel you would like to have?" Without waiting for an answer he turned abruptly to the flag captain standing beside him on the bridge. "Breese, make out Selfridge's orders to the Conestoga." (upon Selfridge's request for a court of inquiry after Selfridge's vessel had been sunk from under him)
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I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Yours very truly A. LINCOLN
The companion volume to Stars in Their Courses, this marvelous account of Grant's siege of the Mississippi port of Vicksburg continues Foote's narrative of the great battles of the Civil War--culled from his massive three-volume history--recounting a campaign which Lincoln called "one of the most brilliant in the world."
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