Grant's Overland Campaign - Grant and the Confederacy

Tom commonted naria. The thing with this is tom, the guy who finishes first, winds up being looked at as a loser because of expectations. Now grant, we've already met grant before, and we've seen some of the reasons why expectations are high for him. So we saw his brilliant at the battle of fort donelson which catapulted him to national recognition, fame and promotion to major general. And then we saw him stand off a very determined confederate counter attack at shiloh in 18 63. He conducted a brilliant campaign of manoeuvre in the interior of mississippi, which enabled him to besiege vicksburg,. six weeks later, surrendered to