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Article: The military voyage of Ulysses.(Saturday)(The Civil War)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 16, 2001
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The Vicksburg Campaign saved the Union from dismemberment at a crucial moment, establishing Ulysses S. Grant's singular military genius in the mind of Union authority.
Grant was largely overlooked in the North's early, chaotic search for important military leaders. He was a West Point graduate and a Mexican War veteran, but he had resigned from the Army with a drinker's reputation, failed as a farmer and was clerking in a small leather-goods store in Galena, Ill., when war broke out. A letter to the Army's adjutant general offering his services went unanswered. A visit to Maj. Gen. George McClellan's headquarters in Covington, Ky., netted nothing: ...