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The Generalship of Ulysses S. Grant
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THE GENERALSHIP OF ULYSSES S. GRANT by COLONEL J. F. C. FULLER f EACK EPOCH CREATES ITS OWN AC1NTS AND GENERAL CRANT MORE NEARLY THAN ANY OTHER MAN IMPERSONATED THE AMIRICAN CHARACTER OF xS6l65 HI WILL STAND, THEREFORE, AS THE TYPICAL HERO OF THE CREAT CIVIL WAR, 1 William T. Sherman WITH MAPS AND PUNS DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY NEW YORK - - - 1929 ULYSSES 8, GRANT, TO THE YOUTH OF AMERICA THIS BOOK ON A GREAT AMERICAN ACKNOWLEDGMENT Thanks are due Messrs. D. Appleton Company for their courtesy In permitting the use of seventeen maps which appear in this volume. These are taken from A Military History of Ulysses S Grant f by Adam Badeau. Thanks are due also to the Review of Reviews Company for furnishing a photograph of General Grant which is a reproduction of one of Bradys pictures taken in 1863. For the whole country it was to be the bitterest of all ordeals, an agony of struggle and a decision by blood but for one party it was to be a war of hope. Should the South win, she must also lose must lose her place in the great Union which she had loved and fostered, and must in gaining inde pendence destroy a nation. Should the North win, she would confirm a great hope and expectation, establish the Union, unify it in institutions, free it from interior contradictions of life and principle, set it in the way of consistent growth and unembarrassed greatness. The South fought for a principle, as the North did it was this that was to give the war dignity, and supply the tragedy with a double motive. But the princi ple for which the South fought meant standstill in the midst of change it was conservative, not creative it was against drift and destiny it protected an impossible institution and abelated order of society it withstood a creative and imperial idea, the idea of a united people and a single law of freedom. Overwhelming material superiority, it turned out, was with the North but she had also another and greater advantage she was to fight for the Union and for the abiding peace, con cord, and strength of a great nation, Woodrow Wilson. PREFACE I would like to see truthful history written. Such history will do full credit to the courage, endurance, and ability of the American citizen, no matter what section he hailed from, or in what rank he fought Ulysses S. Grant. THE greatest event in European history was the discovery of the New World to-day it could only be rivalled by landing on a habitable planet. The greatest event in American history was the Civil War greater than the Rebellion, because separa tion from England was sooner or later inevitable. The man who most greatly influenced this war was Ulysses S Grant not because he was so clear-sighted a statesman as Lincoln, or so clever a tactician as Lee, but because he was the greatest strategist of his age, of the war, and, consequently, its greatest general The greatness of great men is an heirloom which Is ever young for it is the source of that historic spirit which gives character to a people, and which, when a people cease to follow it, leaves them bankrupt of moral strength Thus, it seems to me that no earnest book on a great man, no matter how many may have been written, is altogether redundant for greatness Is not a thing which can be weighed and meas ured, but a force which flashing down the corridors of time reflects new possibilities from the ever-changing facets of human doings. What Grant was to the menand women of 1865 is not necessarily what he is to the men and women of to-day not because Grant has changed, but because civiliza tion has changed and is changing. Because nothing human stands still, it has been the fate of most great men to lose their reality, to become separated from their mortal work, and to assume mythical or enigmatic forms... |
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