Good Soldier Shweik
Private
- Joined
- Oct 17, 2018
- Location
- on a volcano
Lee tried to negotiate peace terms with Grant at least three times. Once at Cold Harbor, once with Longstreet's and Grant's wife, the peace commissioners who wound up talking to Lincoln instead, and at the road to Appomattox. Each time Grant's response was "Beyond my pay grade." It strikes me Lee was desperately trying to get Grant to make concessions he couldn't do.
Did he try this with any other commander? Did he feel he could get some kind of super deal going through Grant rater than Lincoln or Seward? Grant's skill as a negotiator was treated in his memoirs in his story of the horse he wanted when he was 12. Did they feel they could get a better deal?
It is worth noting That Sherman made a horrible deal with Johnson in Johnson's surrender that wasn't much of a surrender. Lincoln may have done very well keeping ALL settlements in his hands
Did he try this with any other commander? Did he feel he could get some kind of super deal going through Grant rater than Lincoln or Seward? Grant's skill as a negotiator was treated in his memoirs in his story of the horse he wanted when he was 12. Did they feel they could get a better deal?
It is worth noting That Sherman made a horrible deal with Johnson in Johnson's surrender that wasn't much of a surrender. Lincoln may have done very well keeping ALL settlements in his hands