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Waugh represents Grant's memoirs as filled with the theme of reconstruction. Do you agree? How is this represented? And what about the deminishing of Grant's reputation compared to Lee's, do you think that had any influence on his personal feelings that might have been represented in his memoirs? - Victoria Y. | Waugh represents Grant's memoirs as filled with the theme of reconstruction. Do you agree? How is this represented? And what about the deminishing of Grant's reputation compared to Lee's, do you think that had any influence on his personal feelings that might have been represented in his memoirs? - Victoria Y. | ||
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| + | Was the criticism often thrust upon Grant's leadership, and in general the leadership of Union Generals during the war fair? Or was the criticism Fah's explains just the product of Southern views against him? -AJ L. | ||
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| + | If Grant's career during the war hadn't been attacked so much by the south so much do you think his memoirs would have been so focused on why he did certain things during the war and in general the war itself, becoming, as was stated, "the single contemporary document which explains, why the North won the Civil War" at that time? -AJ L. | ||
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| + | I think the first pages of the Grant chapter are little hypocritical on everyone’s part. I think that it is odd for Grant to condemn slavery and say the North was fighting to end slavery when he had owned a slave in his life. Why are we so quick to say that Grant is right and dismiss every southern general’s memoir as wrong? My do we dismiss other generals opinions like McClellan’s about what the war was fought over. They all were there in the same time period in the same event. Is this a case of the victor is right because he won? Logan T | ||
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| + | Grants opinions of Lee’s generalship can be turned back on him. He explains that Lee prolonged the war by staying in trenches and not fighting in the open where Grant would have defeated him. But Lee was never able to defeat Grant in the same way he defeated other Union Generals because Grants men were firmly entrenched in those campaigns. In these campaigns both sides used trench warfare. Has the attempt to counter the lost cause veiws elevated Grant’s generalship higher than it should be? Logan T | ||
