Ulysses S. Grant and the Period of National Preservation and Reconstruction (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Ulysses S. Grant and the Period of National Preservation and Reconstruction

It is natural to seek as the hero Of each historic movement some man who, more than any other, represents the spirit Of his time. However Opinions may differ as to the relative merits in a strictly mili tary sense of the men Who led our troops to battle, few willdispute the fact that the chief representative Of the Union armies was Ulysses Simpson Grant. As was said by General Sherman, his principal competitor for the first place Each epoch creates its own agents, and General Grant more nearly than any other man impersonated the American character Of 1861 - 65. He will stand, therefore, as the typical hero of the great Civil War Of America Of the nine teenth century.

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During four years of civil strife, from 1861 to 1865, more than three millions of Americans - North and South - wore the uniform of the soldier, and in over twenty-two hundred and fifty recorded battles and skirmishes nearly half a million suffered wounds or death. Theories of peace, founded upon a government by the people, have not saved us from contributing our full share to the battle roll of the century.

For this loss we find compensation in the fact that these years of conflict, of suffering, and of death, formed an heroic period in American history. Individual selfishness was largely absorbed in the larger self-interest of State and Country.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.