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@WMcluskey @foster_type Not to mention that he had to deal with Stanton and Halleck in Washington. An underappreciated headwind that was periodically blowing hard in his face.

Grant was a good plug into to the Army of the Potomac... still a little loose with casualties... I like his earlier work better. Doesn't detract from the fact that he kept lee fixed in position while the rest of the confederacy got stomped (thanks Sherman et al) and used his resources well to win in VA.

Geez sounds like a lost cause. This view always insinuates that Grant was somehow ungentlemanly for not fighting Lee with one hand tied behind his back.

@WMcluskey @foster_type No doubt, I think he said that was his biggest regret of the war

@foster_type I still think he should have learned from cold harbor and husbanded his men better... that charge was still avoidable too...

Despite Lee's tactical skill he was forced into a siege of Petersburg in two months while his the rest of the confederacy burnt across half a dozen different fronts. Again, Grant was not obliged to strategize symmetrically with Lee, he had more men and materiel and better coordination across theaters. Moreover he was fighting on enemy turf with long supply lines and exhausted men. He beat Lee, period.

@foster_type Just so, a refreshing take, and accurate.

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@HistoryWJacob After the first day of Shiloh: Sherman: well Grant we’ve had the devils own day. Grant: Yes, lick ‘em tomorrow though

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10 Legendary US Military Quotes: "I have not yet begun to fight." Captain John Paul Jones, 1779 His ship was sinking under him. The British captain demanded surrender. That was Jones answer. He then won the battle, boarding the enemy ship as his own went down. 🧵1/10

@EchoesofWarYT To Meade At 6 pm, July 3: Sedgwick Advance

If you could say 3 words to any commander before the Battle of Gettysburg, what are you saying?

@BRyvkin Couldn’t agree more. The baseline for understanding the Civil War is knowing the four historical memory traditions: the lost cause, emancipation, union, and reconciliation. The first 2R, in their evolved forms, still alive and kicking. The latter to have faded from memory.

@EchoesofWarYT Longstreet is right

@MichaelAArouet I think it’s reflective of the institutional capture of wokeism (but is now being called Third Worldism), particularly in post secondary education, which now majority female. It’s a feedback loop that generates student debt, unremarkable skills, and hate of western society.

That's an interesting chart. Young men have stayed similarly conservative for over 25 years, while young women have drifted much further left. Why such a divergence? What has changed for young women that hasn't changed for young men?

@Noahpinion YES

Ok just gonna come out and say it Kill Bill was mid

@FalkTG Remember: “Ich bin ein Berliner"

A sad day for Germany 🇩🇪. 5.000 US 🇺🇸 troops will leave my country. They defended us for 7 decades and they never misused their power (unlike the Soviets). They acted disciplined and friendly. They taught us a lot. The U.S. is like a big brother for Germany. But the U.S. administration is right: Germany can stand on its own feed nowadays. The U.S. needs its resources to deter China 🇨🇳. And one day, when we Europeans are strong enough we will do so as well. Thank you American soldiers for your service for liberty and peace in Europe. 🇩🇪 🇺🇸🇪🇺

@WarMonitor3 I’m trying to figure out the next hundred months

What does the world order look like in 100 years?

@hbulwark1 He looks haunted by the ghosts of Franklin

Confederate Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood in 1866, one year after the Civil War ended. A bold, aggressive commander who lost an arm at Gettysburg and a leg at Chickamauga, yet kept fighting. His leadership of the Army of Tennessee ended in catastrophe at Franklin and Nashville. A stark reminder of how courage without prudence can doom even the bravest.

@thejustinnewman @Grummz Counter counter point, there is a air of menace, and masculinity, and organized violence in the exquisitely choreographed movements.

@Grummz Counterpoint: Dudes doing a 3 minute choreographed number with mumble music is gay.

Why is this new music video capturing everyone? Simple. The boys are back. It’s got that energy that female led schools have tried to crush for years.

@PeterWrangel @Will_Tanner_1 He kept the army of the Potomac lethal during the dog days

@PeterWrangel @Will_Tanner_1 Not bad, Winfield Scott Hancock,too!

Grant interceded to fight the Reconstruction regime, which wanted to try both Lee and Jefferson Davis, along with other Confederate leaders, for treason Grant fought them particularly hard on their attempts to persecute Lee, as he understood the peace he struck with Lee forbade such barbarities Whatever his other faults, he was a man of his word, and a gentleman in that regard, which is much of why he was liked He also wasn't a war criminal like Sheridan or Sherman, who delighted in destroying civilian property

@PeterWrangel @Will_Tanner_1 You could argue no two union generals did more to shorten the war, in fact, I would argue that.

@Will_Tanner_1 I don't view Sheridan or Sherman as war criminals.

@EchoesofWarYT Exact opposite of cowards

Confederate soldiers were anything but cowards you imbecile, and I say that as someone whose ancestors fought for the Union

@EchoesofWarYT Top notch post, A+. Someone could write a PhD dissertation with that scene.

The Hill statue dedication on May 1, 1886, sits at the intersection of three separate humiliations being publicly retired in a single afternoon, which is why it landed so hard at the time and why Foote singles it out. Longstreet’s exile. After Appomattox, Longstreet did the unthinkable for a former Confederate corps commander: he became a Republican, accepted federal patronage from his old friend Ulysses Grant, and in 1874 led Black Metropolitan Police and state militia against the White League at the Battle of Liberty Place in New Orleans, where he was shot, captured, and held briefly by white insurrectionists trying to overthrow Louisiana’s Reconstruction government. For Lost Cause Southerners, this was apostasy. Jubal Early and the Virginia faction of the Southern Historical Society spent the 1870s and 1880s systematically reconstructing Gettysburg as Longstreet’s failure rather than Lee’s, transferring the war’s central wound onto the one general who had broken ranks politically. By 1886, Longstreet was the most hated living Confederate in the South. Davis’s rehabilitation. Davis had his own arc of disgrace. He’d been captured in women’s clothing (or so Northern papers claimed), imprisoned at Fort Monroe in irons, denied a trial, and then released into a kind of stateless purgatory — he never sought a pardon and never had his citizenship restored in his lifetime. Early Lost Cause writers had blamed him for losing the war before they pivoted to blaming Longstreet. By 1886 he was 77, ill, and largely retired to Beauvoir on the Mississippi coast. Grady’s New South project. Henry Grady is the figure who makes the whole scene legible. As editor of the Atlanta Constitution, he was selling Northern capital on the idea that the South had reconciled itself to the Union, abandoned secession, and was open for industrial investment — while simultaneously selling white Southerners on the idea that they’d lost the war but won the peace, with Reconstruction dismantled and Black political power crushed. The 1886 Davis tour was Grady’s stagecraft: parade the old president through Montgomery, Atlanta, Macon, and Savannah, let the crowds roar, let the Northern papers cover it as evidence of sectional healing, and use the spectacle to consecrate the New South’s terms. Why the embrace mattered. Longstreet showing up uninvited-by-the-faithful but invited-by-Grady, in his old gray uniform, on horseback at the edge of the crowd, was theater of a high order. He was making himself available for forgiveness without asking for it. Davis, the man whose government Longstreet had served loyally for four years before his postwar political defection, had every reason to snub him. Instead Davis pulled him onto the platform and embraced him in front of tens of thousands of people. In one gesture, the two most damaged figures of the Confederate memory wars — the imprisoned president and the Republican turncoat — were publicly reconciled to each other and to the Lost Cause crowd that had spent twenty years pillorying them both. It didn’t actually end Longstreet’s exile; the Gettysburg slander campaign continued until his death in 1904 and well past it. But as a tableau, it captured something Foote was always drawn to: the way private friendship and personal generosity kept reasserting themselves through the ideological wreckage these men had made of their lives. Davis the unbending ideologue, of all people, was the one who walked across the platform. That’s the weight behind the scene — two old men on a stage in Atlanta, doing in thirty seconds what twenty years of pamphlet warfare couldn’t undo.

@jswhalen1 @WilliamFranko7 @EchoesofWarYT I love James LongStreet, I love him antebellum, during the war, and after the war.

@WilliamFranko7 @EchoesofWarYT Longstreet attended, even though he wasn’t invited. He was true to his character until his dying days.

Ulysses S. Grant and James Longstreet had one of the more remarkable friendships in American history, made all the more striking because they ended up on opposite sides of the Civil War. They met as cadets at West Point in the early 1840s and became close friends despite their different backgrounds. Longstreet, a Georgian, was outgoing and physically imposing, while Grant was quieter and smaller, but they bonded over a shared dislike of military pretension and a love of horses. After graduation they served together in the Mexican-American War, where they fought alongside each other and deepened the friendship. The personal connection became family. Longstreet was related to Grant’s future wife, Julia Dent, through his cousin. Longstreet attended Grant and Julia’s wedding in 1848 and, by some accounts, served as a groomsman or best man. The two men remained close until the Civil War divided them, with Longstreet becoming one of Robert E. Lee’s most trusted corps commanders and Grant rising to command all Union armies. One of the most telling moments came in 1864, when Grant was given command of all Union armies and Confederate officers around Lee’s headquarters were dismissing him as a drunkard and a butcher who had only succeeded against second-rate Western generals. Longstreet, who knew Grant better than any man in gray, reportedly silenced the room by warning his fellow officers something to the effect of, “that man will fight us every day and every hour till the end of the war.” He told them not to underestimate Grant’s tenacity, that he was a soldier of singular determination, and that the Confederacy now faced an opponent unlike any it had met before. History proved him exactly right, the Overland Campaign that followed was the bloodiest and most relentless pressure Lee’s army ever endured. What’s most touching is what happened after the war. When the two met again at Appomattox in 1865, Grant reportedly greeted Longstreet warmly, offered him a cigar, and invited him to play a game of cards “as if nothing had ever happened.” Grant later used his political influence to help Longstreet receive a pardon and restoration of citizenship. Longstreet then committed what many former Confederates considered an unforgivable betrayal: he became a Republican, supported Grant’s presidential campaigns, and accepted federal appointments from him, including minister to the Ottoman Empire. This earned Longstreet decades of vilification from Lost Cause writers, but he never wavered in his loyalty to his old friend.