BlueandGrayl
First Sergeant
- Joined
- May 27, 2018
- Location
- Corona, California
Ulysses S. Grant.
The man was reposnsible for getting the Union Army in the West moving and getting them to acheive notable victories (Grant or not) such as Padacuah, Fort Henry/Donelson, Pea Ridge, Shiloh, Corinth, Perryville, Stones River, Vicksburg, Chattanoga/Missionary Ridge, Atlanta, Franklin, and Nashville his actions also brought attention to William Tecumseh Sherman and Phil Sheridan who would go on to deliver decisive blows in 1864. I'd say that without Ulysses S. Grant it's unlikely much of the Western Theater would ever occur as Henry W. Halleck and Don Carlos Buell (who were in charge) were squabbling with one another over who should get credit of the Tennessee/Cumberland River invasions plus neither could mount a full-fledged attack upon western Confederate territory going even as far as to send letters to Abraham Lincoln explaining why they couldn't invade even George H. Thomas (a Virginia Southern Unionist general who was underrated like Patrick Cleburne IMO) could move his troops no further after Mill Springs due to weather and a lack of food plus he wasn't going to accept any promotions unlike Grant.
The man was reposnsible for getting the Union Army in the West moving and getting them to acheive notable victories (Grant or not) such as Padacuah, Fort Henry/Donelson, Pea Ridge, Shiloh, Corinth, Perryville, Stones River, Vicksburg, Chattanoga/Missionary Ridge, Atlanta, Franklin, and Nashville his actions also brought attention to William Tecumseh Sherman and Phil Sheridan who would go on to deliver decisive blows in 1864. I'd say that without Ulysses S. Grant it's unlikely much of the Western Theater would ever occur as Henry W. Halleck and Don Carlos Buell (who were in charge) were squabbling with one another over who should get credit of the Tennessee/Cumberland River invasions plus neither could mount a full-fledged attack upon western Confederate territory going even as far as to send letters to Abraham Lincoln explaining why they couldn't invade even George H. Thomas (a Virginia Southern Unionist general who was underrated like Patrick Cleburne IMO) could move his troops no further after Mill Springs due to weather and a lack of food plus he wasn't going to accept any promotions unlike Grant.