2018 Winter Lecture Series - “The movement was south.” General Grant and the Overland Campaign
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2024
- Ulysses S. Grant was chosen by President Abraham Lincoln to lead all military forces in 1864 to finally put an end to the fighting during the Civil War. Grant's Overland Campaign against Robert E. Lee would be a turning point in the war and one that Lee could not ultimately match.
He’s a great lecturer & researcher. Bravo!
Determination and Morale…as a retired Army SGM with time in 2 RGR Bn and a certain SMU ,having a Commander that pushes you forward to final Victory is what your soldiers want…all the sacrifices will not be in vain….cheers
I disagree with your statement Mr. Heiser. You said Grant wanted to obtain an appointment at West Point. I've read his memoirs and I was assured by his own words that Ulysses wanted nothing to do with West Point. He said that we was content for some calamity accident to happen that would prevent his going to West Point.
Very true
Nowhere near as much fun to watch when you can't see the slides - it helps keep my attention. Hope they come back.
Doesn’t matter if you can’t see the slides: the cameraman they have in Gettysburg totally sucks. He shows yiu backs of heads and only glimpses of slides.
John is, quite simply, the best! Thanks GNMP and thanks, John!
Could it get any better than this?
I doubt it.
Good lecture, thanks
'You have to wonder what is he thinking? What is he thinking at that moment? Because after two weeks of heavy fighting the Army of the Potomac has suffered almost 20.000 casualities, in this heavy fighting more troops are coming in but he still cannot get a hold of Lee long enough just to beat him to a pulp. And now he's got to keep moving, keep moving south. It goes right back to the adage of how - what Grant thought. He had been thwarted at Todd's Tavern between Spotsylvania Court House and the Wilderness because baggage waggons got in their way, blocked the road, infantry could not get to Spotsylvania in time - the Confederates arrived first and he even wrote later in 1885 in his memoirs that accidents often decide the of the battle. It's accidents that will decide one way or the other - that you are the victor or you're defeted. I think he carries that philosophy throughout the war.' [...] He is concentrating at this point on 'I've got to get a hold of Lee - I'm gonna find Lee and never let go of him. You also have to wonder what is Lee thinking? What is Robert E. Lee thinking, May 21st, 1864 as again the Army of the Potomac is packing their bags, slinging their knapsacks and trying to march around his flank again? What is Lee thinking of this guy? He can't figure this one out. He's not like all the others. He is not one to accept defeat and walk away from the battlefield with defeat on his shoulders. He is actually the winner.'
What a creative mind, should be a novellist, frankly.
Well stated, old boy.
Sherman had to pull Hampton south and the Navy had to take Fort Fisher before the Drunken Butcher was able to flush Lee. The Navy supplied Grant at City Point because he could not protect his overland route, nor cut Lee's RR. The Navy won the War.
Good point. It's really easy to forget when studying history that the people who lived it were living it day by day and they had no idea how things were going to go. But people like Grant stuck to their convictions, and it worked.
@@ajmari9585 The Drunken Butcher ran the most corrupt Administration in US History until Sleepy Joe.
Lee leaves us a record of what he thinks of facing Grant but he puts it on the record before the campaign even begins “ He will not give up like the others. He will maneuver us to Petersburg and the affair will be settled there “
Why did you guys leave out the slides?? Must be a new cameraman. That is 2 lectures in a row now that have not shown the slides.
Excellent presentation. Thank you.
Good talk and well supports the idea of the Overland Campaign as a turning point in the war. The video would be improved if the accompanying slides could be shown.
Many lectures don’t show slides. Are the photos copyrighted perhaps!
Gotta say I was surprised by some of the errors in this, like making up a middle name for grant, and saying he “didn’t like” certain occupations he had instead of stating that he failed at them.
Thank you.
Thank you
Confederates were fighting to preserve and expand African American slavery. Read Confederate Vice President Alexander Stevens "Cornerstone Speech" made in March of 1861.
Just a suggestion: you can hear the man talk, no matter where the camera is pointing. You can only see the maps and lists of information in the slide show, if the camera is pointed at the screen. Maybe you can learn from that, IDK Thanks for all your vids NPSGettysburg!
If you could see it online why would you visit in persona and buy their books?
Lee was prisoner to protecting Richmond Petersburg and the railroad networks
I love you guys, but how about showing us the screen!
Will the NPS ever get decent cameraman/woman... EVER???
Grant did not want to go to west point. His father pushed him.
Videography here is an epic failure by the NPS
Army of the Uh tomic
Why bother with the slides if all you show is speaker and lecture. Waste of time
I generally appreciate presentations by GettysburgNPS. But unless you had a deep understanding of these events, this was unwatchable. All they showed was a guy walking around. Why no showing of slides? I had to quit halfway through.
Close your eyes and listen to it as if as a podcast ….this lecture was about Grants mindset….one mans determination at a time and place that moved the U.S Army towards the surrender of Army of Northern Virginia….
Lee and Jackson drank? BS
Yes Jackson did but very irregularly. Read bio by James Robertson of VT
Mark Young he said he liked taste too much and quit. Yes I know, but not at VMI or during War.
Old Heathen Corwin Amendment is interesting Amendment, read it and say that with a straight face.
Saint Stonewall Jackson and R.E Lee.
Yes Jackson did quit drinking but he didn’t do so until he went to vmi, Lee writes of drinking and quite heavily when in Texas. So Heisers claim is quite accurate as he only applies it to the frontier post officers
Buell saved Grants butt at Pittsburgh Landing. determination of Grant and Sherman? nonsense you just lost me.
First Buells soldiers were under Grants command during the Battle. Also if Buell would have done his job correctly and marched his men to Grant as he was ordered to instead of sitting around, then they would have been there at least a week earlier.
@@texasforever7887 You mean Lew Wallace?
Come on brother. I’m a retired SGM Army ( 2nd Ranger Bn and a certain SMU) and been in a few scrapes. Having a Leader that pushes you forward to make the sacrifices of the past worth fighting for is the foundation of high Moral…..cheers
Morale …high school grad and no correspondence courses
@@bryanwiedeman3154 Rangers began as 43rd Virginia Cavalry under Mosby. They once had a CSA Flag design on the pin. Grant was a drunken butcher and Sherman an arsonist who was real tough against women and children.