Happy Birthday

[cash]

Happy Birthday to the greatest soldier of the American Civil War:

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/gene...bday/0427.html

[william42]

Hi Cash: I wish him a happy birthday also, although my wish is perhaps not as unqualified as yours. I think he was a great soldier and ultimately won the war for the North, but I've always had reservations about him after his behavior at Cold Harbor. I do give him credit for his excellent generalship and dogged determination in his final contest with Lee starting at The Wilderness, and I always admired him for not tolerating mistreatment of animals, especially horses. I still believe Lee was the better general of the two, and I would also wish Lee a happy birthday as well, whenever that may be. Thanks for your post.

Terry

[sockknitter]

Here's another birthday remembrance for Ulysses Grant. The more I read of him, the more admirable he seems. Nobody is perfect and he had his failings but on balance I wish many more people would be like him. Two outstanding qualities were his calmness and clarity of expression.

[unionblue]

Cash,

Indeed, a happy birthday to a man who helped save the Union, had the courage to see the fight through and the ability not to muck with politics until that job was through!

Sincerely,
Unionblue

[sgtcsa]

I suppose I may be out of line here, but I'm afraid, if I had to choose between the two, it would have to be Gen. Lee. Although I respect Grant, by far, one of the countrys greatest men, has to be Gen. Lee. His attributes as, not only a great military mind, but a great Southern gentleman, as well, are not to be denied. Being a native born Virginian, I suppose I'm more than a little biased, but, for that, I do not apologize. Lee could have totaled the North, if he had been privileged to have had the same number of men that Grant had, and of that, I have no doubt. However, that not what transpired, and if it had turned out differently, I'm not sure if this country would have asscended to the heights that it has reached today. Perhaps it's because it was just that, the lost cause, that we hold dear, the old South, and it's traditions. Anyway, though this thread is a tribute to Grant, and because he so generously gave to the defeated Southerners, their dignity as men, and defeated soldiers, I will at least give to him, the respect that is due him. However, to be the greatest General of the war? I do not agree. Happy birthday, Gen. Grant. By the way, the birthday of General Lee, is......Jan. 19, 1807

SgtCSA

[gary]

Happy B-D Hiram Grant.