The Great Commanders - 105 - Ulysses S. Grant | FULL LENGTH | MagellanTV

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Grant was top equestrian 🐎 in his class at west point. It is a minor detail but speaks alot about his temperament

With respect the voice actor is awful for this part. Jason Robards played his voice in Ken Burns' THE CIVIL WAR to perfection. Robards sounded like he smoked 20 cigars a day like Grant did.

The whole myth of the "Lost Cause," and the sainting of Lee (and other southern officers) belies the oft repeated dogma that it's the winners who write the history. The southern losers wrote an awful lot of the history.

Reading Grant's memoirs I was totally impressed with his ability just to explain things. It was quite modern in comparison with, say, the memoirs of Joshua Chamberlain, which was a slog to read. (I trust Chamberlain's orders were clearer than his memoirs.)

A great man.

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Grant's aim to putting an end to prisoner exchanges was motivated by the South's inhuman policy of summarily executing Black union soldiers. A beastly policy that demanded response.
The Confederates were and remain,NOT good people.

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Deepest respect for General Grant. The greatest general of all time and as we are finally learning, one of America’s greatest Presidents. 🇺🇸

I have read Grant's Memoirs, it was a light blue hard cover. He was an exceptionally good writer and extremely smart man who understood war, what war is and what it takes to win at war, strategically and logistically. I have been to his house near St. Louis, to his farm. I have been to his battlefields, in Missouri and Tennessee, along the Mississippi River and Cumberland river.
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Unconditional Surrender Grant. He himself though, gave very good terms to Robert E Lee and was extremely generous to Lee's men.
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Wow, I'm shocked at the errors in this video. Less than 5 minutes in and you get his name wrong? He was not born Ulysses Simpson Grant- his birth name was Hiram Ulysses Grant. A mistake at Westpoint is where U.S. Grant comes from. If you can't bother getting the basics correct why would I bother watching this? Do your damn homework next time.

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Lee was a traitor. Stop

I love reading some of these back and forth comments. Grant was this and Lee was that. In the end the North won the war and the South lost. The rest is just BS conversation. Move on.

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weighed 114 lbs. when he entered West Point

Grants victories vindicated the society he was fighting for. A society based on free labour and self determination.

Presidency undistinguished and marked by scandal? The scandal yes. His cabinet was as crooked as it gets. However grants created the department of justice to fight the KKK. I’d call that distinguished

Amazing they were able to get back in time and get Agamemnon to narrate!

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Grant later stole Native American land in the Black Hills and murdered women and children? the ownership to this very day is unlawful, Grant was a murderer and was the same as Stalin to get his way!

Grant wasn’t a Great Commander, he was willing to commit war crimes against the South! He burned homes, farms, cities, looted, and attacked civilian populations, the Southern generals such as Lee had strict orders don’t attack or molest civilians

Grant was a Quartermaster. He understood that if you robbed a soldier of food, ammo, artillery, shoes and coffee, they could not fight for long.

Many say the turning point of the Civil War was Lee's defeat at Gettysburg. Others point to Grant's victory at Vicksburg. Actually, nothing changed with these two battles. The war continued on. I believe the turning point in the war was the appointment of Grant to 3 star command. The United States finally had unified command and leadership with singleness of purpose.

Post war, the North moved on. The Southerners took to pen and wrote volumes reliving the war. Grant's reputation suffered as a result until more recent times when authors/researchers with the distance of time and the advantages of modern tools revisited Grant's accomplishments, history and life.

Did actor Brian Cox narrate this?

The 1 sentence description of his presidency sounds like it was written by Nathan Bedford forest. Grant destroyed the KKK, did more for civil rights than any other president ever except Lincoln & kept the country together.

Grant beat lee at lees best.

U.S. Grant Would have made a great marine

Around 7 minutes some imprecision. 11 states EVENTUALLY seceded, but only 7 did so before Fort Sumter. Of the remaining states, the border states of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri started off NEUTRAL between Union and Confederacy.

As brilliant as Grant was in picking his commanders during the war, that is how bad he was in picking his administration members. Yet, his administration had successes in spite of the scandal that members of the administration carried out. All seem pretty clear that Grant himself was not involved.

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I was expecting more from Magellan on this topic. Lack of detail and poor quotes from historians. 2 out of 5 stars!

Grant certainly deserves credit for getting the job done but was he really great? I am not so sure.

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So much misinformation. Even Grant's name. Yuck presentation.

Ulysses Grant is the ultimate yankee hypocrite. Used slaves to bury dead at antietam, gettysburg, etc. Check the pictures. Kept then in service past war's end. Lincoln was against emancipation until he was for it. What a bunch of $hit. Can't anyone be honest about this? I think not.

An important aspect that must be considerd is the vast improvement in Union Cavalry by Sheridan. To be able to fix the location of the Enemy, and Deny his ability to do the same.

The statue of Grant in Washington, DC is just down the hill from the capitol building. It's decidedly unheroic; Grant sits astride his horse, the brim of his hat turned down as if it was raining.