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re: History Debate: Ulysses S. Grant vs. Robert E. Lee
Posted on 4/1/14 at 9:53 am to RollTide1987
Posted on 4/1/14 at 9:53 am to RollTide1987
Grant also used slave labor to, in all his drunken arrogance, try to reroute the Mississippi River in order to capture Vicksburg.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 10:06 am to Mike da Tigah
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Grant also used slave labor to, in all his drunken arrogance, try to reroute the Mississippi River in order to capture Vicksburg.
No one ever said Grant was a perfect human being. He even owned a slave his father-in-law gave to him and his wife as a wedding present. Though, to his credit, he did set him free.
As to his attempt to re-route the Mississippi River, many of his army's excursions throughout the Winter of 1862-63 were merely exercises to keep them up and moving to avoid making winter camp in a swamp.
But there was hardly anything arrogant about it. The Mississippi River had been re-routed many times before Grant's vein attempt.
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