A Victor, Not a Butcher: Ulysses S. Grant's Overlooked Military Genius - Hardcover

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Reassessing Ulysses S. Grant's role as military leader, the author re-evaluates the general's reputation as a "butcher" and reveals Grant's true legacy as the military leader with the lowest casualty rates in the war--a record he maintained while still winning every battle.

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Civil War hero General Ulysses S. Grant has been unfairly maligned because of the bloody 1864 campaigns he conducted against Robert E. Lee to secure final victory for the Union. Victor, Not A Butcher takes you into those decisive campaigns to prove that far from being a crude butcher (as he has been characterized not only by Southern partisans, but by historians) Grant's casualty rates actually compared favorably with those of other Civil War generals. Grant was an inspired military leader with a genius for issuing lucid orders, maneuvering his troops adroitly, and making excellent use of his staff. His perseverance, decisiveness, moral courage, and political acumen place him among the greatest generals of the Civil War-indeed, of all military history.

Author Ed Bonekemper traces Grant's record of unparalleled success-Forts Henry and Donelson, Shiloh, Iuka, Corinth, Raymond, Jackson, Champion's Hill, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, the Overland Campaign, the James River crossing, Five Forks, Petersburg, and Appomattox-showing how Grant won his victories through expert execution of carefully planned military strategies, not the meat-grinder tactics of myth.

This book also explores the paradoxes of Grant's early life, discussing how he was reluctant to attend West Point and never distinguished himself among his contemporaries there. Bonekemper also deals forthrightly with Grant's struggles in civilian life-and particularly the allegations of alcoholism and other factors that led his contemporaries (as well as historians of later generations) to underestimate him.

Bonekemper identifies the key elements of Grant's success as a general. He even demonstrates that as a military strategist and leader, Grant outshone his much-lionized rival, Robert E. Lee. He examines casualty records that prove that Grant lost fewer men in his successful effort to take Richmond and end the war than his predecessors lost in making the same attempt and failing. Bonekemper proves that it was no historical accident that Grant accepted the surrender of three entire Confederate armies-at Fort Donelson in 1862, Vicksburg in 1863, and Appomattox Court House in 1865. (No other general on either side accepted the surrender of even one army until Sherman accepted the capitulation of the remnants of the Army of Tennessee at the war's end, in mid-April 1865.) His tactics are studied carefully by American military personnel to this day.

Ulysses Grant won the Civil War. He was responsible for virtually all major Union victories in the West, the "Middle," and the East. Bonekemper ably silences Grant's critics and restores Grant to the heroic reputation he so richly deserves.

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ULYSSES S. GRANT: A VICTOR, NOT A BUTCHER

?Although I am a great admirer of Robert E. Lee, I also admire the exciting and controversial historical analysis of Lee and Grant that Ed Bonekemper has created. How Robert E. Lee Lost the Civil War was outstanding, and Ulysses S. Grant: A Victor, Not a Butcher is even better.” ?Edwin R. Baldridge, Professor Emeritus, Muhlenberg College

?Ed Bonekemper slashes incisively through the thick fog of politicized history that surrounds Ulysses S. Grant to give us a long overdue reassessment of Grant’s unparalleled gifts as a military commander.”
?John A. Barnes, author of ULYSSES S. GRANT ON LEADERSHIP:EXECUTIVE LESSONS FROM THE FRONT LINES

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  • PublisherRegnery History
  • Publication date2004
  • ISBN 10 089526062X
  • ISBN 13 9780895260628
  • BindingHardcover
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  • Number of pages480
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