civil war?

Question

This union general was quite successful in the west, was given command of the union army in 1864 despite being criticized for taking large nimbers of casualties. "unconditional surrender"

Answer 1

Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant, April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American general and politician who was elected the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War.

After service in the Mexican-American War, an undistinguished peacetime military career, and a series of unsuccessful civilian jobs, Grant proved highly successful in training new recruits in 1861. His capture of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in February 1862 marked the first major Union victories of the civil war and opened up prime avenues of invasion to the South. Surprised and nearly defeated at Shiloh (April 1862), he fought back and took control of most of western Kentucky and Tennessee. His great achievement in 1862-63 was to seize control of the Mississippi River by defeating a series of uncoordinated Confederate armies and by capturing Vicksburg in July 1863. After a victory at Chattanooga in late 1863, Abraham Lincoln made him general-in-chief of all Union armies.

Grant was the first Union general to initiate coordinated offensives across multiple theaters in the war. While his subordinates Sherman and Sheridan marched through Georgia and the Shenandoah Valley, Grant personally supervised the 1864 Overland Campaign against General Robert E. Lee's Army in Virginia. He employed a war of attrition against his opponent, conducting a series of large-scale battles with very high casualties that alarmed public opinion, while maneuvering ever closer to the Confederate capital, Richmond. Grant announced he would "fight it out on this line if it takes all summer." Lincoln supported his general and replaced his losses, but Lee's dwindling army was forced into defending trenches around Richmond and Petersburg. In April 1865 Grant's vastly larger army broke through, captured Richmond, and forced Lee to surrender at Appomattox. He has been described by J.F.C. Fuller as "the greatest general of his age and one of the greatest strategists of any age." His Vicksburg Campaign in particular is scrutinized by military specialists around the world.

In Office Term:
March 4, 1869 – March 4, 1877

Born: April 27, 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio
Died: July 23, 1885 in Mount McGregor, New York

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Answer 2

Well I could believe that the American Revolution is recounted as that and no longer as a civil warfare in view that we weren't rather facet of Britain however a sequence of colonies looking for independence. We have been seeking to turn out to be an unbiased country versus taking on Britain itself. The Civil War even though composed of two separate international locations was once rather among two factions of the identical country. The union function was once to continue the southern states that had left the union. The United States by no means rather recongnized the south as an extra country, nor (I feel) did some other country. In the American Revolution France identified us. Had the Confederacy gained the warfare it would have then turn out to be a revolution in the event that they made up our minds to stick a separate country and no longer overtake Lincoln's executive. Had they taken over the opposite executive then it could have nonetheless been a civil warfare. The defination of civil warfare is that the two waring aspects come from the identical soverign country.

Answer 3

Ulysses S. Grant, or U.S.Grant and thus the nickname Unconditional Surrender fit.

Answer 4

Grant just got lucky being at the right place at the right time. Meade was a much better general.

Answer 5

U.S. Grant (Ulysses S. Grant)