Vlogging Through History's YouTube series on Ulysses S. Grant's Vicksburg Campaign

Fun fact. The city of Vicksburg did not celebrate July 4th again until after WW2

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Can you imagine what Lincoln was hearing up in DC as he was stuck in the delta trying to dig canals for months only to have to back track?

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He was hearing all kinds of shite. It's why Lincoln sent a journalist down to the front to spy on Grant to see if he was worthy of command. Said journalist ended up becoming one of Grant's strongest supports.

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From a purely military standpoint, free of bias and the prism of politics, The Valley Campaign was far and away the most brilliant campaign of the Civil War, and perhaps the greatest in American history.

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Incorrect. It satisfied a strategic objective to be sure, but the Valley Campaign didn't do nearly as much as the Vicksburg Campaign in terms of winning the war. Jackson merely tied down an entire army and prevented it from reinforcing McClellan on the Peninsula (not that he would have done anything with the extra men anyway given his caution) by playing on the Lincoln administration's fears that a Confederate force would use the Shenandoah Valley as a backdoor to take Washington.

Grant captured an entire army, gained control of the entire Mississippi River, and split the Confederacy in two. His accomplishments in the Vicksburg campaign far outweigh what Jackson managed to achieve in the Valley.

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Given how bad the first part of that campaign went he’s lucky he didn’t get fired.

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He was lucky he didn't die. Making it across the mighty Mississippi was never a given back in those days, even on a boat.

His videos on the European battlefields were good too

Bookmarking this and other videos to watch before I devote a day to visiting the V'burg battlefield

But who knows when that will be...

Strongly disagree. Jackson took the tools he was given (which wasn't much) and tied down forces nearly triple his own. We cannot speculate what McClellan would have done, that doesn't negate what Jackson actually accomplished.

Grant was bold, but let's face it, he had the industrial might of the North behind him.

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Grant was bold, but let's face it, he had the industrial might of the North behind him.

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yeah, he just kind of waited until the confederate forces fell apart (starved or died of disease) and won

Darth, it does no good to debate with OP on the civil war. He is so insanely biased that it’s impossible to have a legit debate with him about it. He is seemingly incapable of giving any credit to Confederate leaders and soldiers.