Why was Capt. Ulysses S. Grant asked to resign from the Army?
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so he could be on one of our currency bills..???
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He hitched his horse to the wrong wagon, but had the wisdom to back out later when he could.  His loyalty is to be commended for not whistle-blowing on Bush and Co., but in some circles it would be called treason.
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A group of people living by our modern laws and morality might have been able to avoid the American Civil War.  I'm not sure that the people of the day could have come up with a solution.  The South wanted to secede because what the federal government was doing was going to destroy their economy.  It did, but a successful secession would have destroyed both economies.
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Major General Gordon Granger was the one who really saved the Army But, you history book wants you to select George H. Thomas.  William S. Rosecrans' commanded the Army of the Cumberland but again your teacher wants you to name Grant.\n\nGod Bless the Army of Tennessee and the Southern People.
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General Hooker, of the Union, wished to envelope, or surround, Robert E Lee's Confederate forces.  Hooker had assembled approximately 70,000 well rested Union forces, while Lee had trouble mustering his 40,000 forces.  Hooker felt, based partly on the Union's failure at Fredericksburg, that it was better to be on the defensive then the offensive.  So he took up defensive positions around the town and in the wilderness.  The idea was that Lee would either have to attack or withdraw.\n\nLee decided to accept the challenge and to attack.  He decided to gamble.  He gave his best general, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, about 28,000 troops.  The idea was that Jackson would flank the Union while Lee distracted them with the remaining troops.  The plan required Jackson to move his troops without being noticed and this is what happened.  Hooker stayed contendely in his defensive position thinking Lee was withdrwaing, when Jacksons troops were finally spotted.  \n\nThe real fighting began once the Confederates had the position they wanted and so the Battle of Chancellorsville had begun.\n\nBelow is a link to a National Park Service website which will elaborate on what I just wrote.
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Interesting question.  Frankly, in his early career, Lincoln supported the rights of the states to secede from the Union.  Apparently he changed his position after attaining the presidency.  If I were to characterize his response, it would be this; He saved the Union at the expense of the Republic, and ushered in what many call the "imperial presidency", expanding the powers of the president over the legislature in regard to war making powers, etc..  You can argue day and night about the reasons for the War Between the States, but Lincoln eventually bought into the concept of the "perpetual Union", and he used the military to enforce it.
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I believe this is history repeating itself.  Did this same scenario actually not happen in 1860, or am I just imagining this?  I believe that Robert E. Lee was a Lt/Col in the US Army at the time, when the southern states suceeded from the union.  Lee left his job and sworn oath to become a rebel, he also took a hell of a lot of GI's with him.  In spite of that, history has been kind to Robert E. LEE, indeed he was a great field officer.  The fact is, he should have been placed in front of a firing squad and shot for treason. The benevolent north, in its quest to promote healing following its victory over the south, decided against any further action.
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Lincoln asked them to abolish slavery. The Southern Sates did not agree as that would mean losing their entire workforce which worked in their plantations and farms and were the source of their wealth and economy.\n\nFaced with no choice, the Southern States left, what followed was the Civil War.
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1865 all remaining Confederate troops surrender.\nNote this is following Lee's surrender.  This is important because Lee was one of the most effective leaders.  Once he surrendered, the South had issues.
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He was a Confederate General.
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When Congressman Thomas Hamer filed Grant's application to West Point, he thought Grant's first name was Ulysses and assumed the middle name would be Simpson, Grant's mother's maiden name. Grant had already been using the name Ulysses Hiram Grant, supposedly to avoid the H.U.G. monogram. Here's some references:\n\nUlysses spent his 16th year at a boarding school in Maysville, KY. By the time he returned home, his father had decided to send him to school at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY., and had secured an appointment there with the help of a political acquaintance. Ulysses had no interest whatsoever in a military life and had a great fear of flunking out. When he arrived at West Point, he was 17 years old, stood 5'1', and weighed 120 pounds. His name was changed forever when he enrolled. He tried to reverse his names and enroll as Ulysses Hiram Grant, but the appointment had already been made erroneously in the name of Ulysses S. Grant because the congressman who had appointed him thought his middle name was his mother's maiden name. Unable to correct the error, Grant took the new name as his own.\ncivilwar.bluegrass.net/Officer... hiramulyssesgrant.html\n\nUlysses arrived at West Point and discovered that the congressman who appointed him, in doubt about his name, had used his middle name first and had used his mother's maiden name (Simpson) for a middle name. Officers insisted that Ulysses S. Grant had been appointed to West Point, Ulysses Hiram Grant had not. In time, Ulysses accepted U. S. Grant as his true name, insisting that his middle initial stood for 'nothing.' His family and Ohio friends continued to call him {Ulysses;} the other cadets nicknamed him 'Uncle Sam' for his initials, soon shortened it to 'Sam.'\nwww.geocities.com/larone1/gran...
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they wanted to stop the expansion of slavery. this led 2 the confederacy 'cause the south "needed" their slaves. and that led 2 the Civil War. Lincoln did the Emancipation Proclamation to make this war officially about slavery. i have no internet sources about this, i'm just mad sick at history
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You're a blabbering idiot....try reading something instead of posting inane comments masquerading as questions..\n\nThe Proclamation was issued in two parts. The first part, issued on September 22, 1862, was a preliminary announcement outlining the intent of the second part, which officially went into effect January 3, 1863, during the second year of the American Civil War. It was Abraham Lincoln's declaration that all slaves would be emancipated in all states which had seceded from the Union and which had not returned to federal control by January 1, 1863. The ten affected states were individually named in the second part. Not included were the Union slave states of Maryland, Delaware, Missouri and Kentucky. Specific exemptions were stated for 48 counties of Virginia designated to become the state of West Virginia, and also for New Orleans and several named parishes in Louisiana already under Union control. That is, areas under Union control on January 1, 1863 were not affected. Lincoln did not think he had legal authority over these areas under his Constitutional war powers.\n\nLincoln himself had declared he had no constitutional authority to free the slaves. In addition, freeing slaves was still a risky political act, since there were still slave states loyal to the Union and the initial war aims were centered on preserving the Union rather than freeing slaves. As such, the proclamation was a military order issued by Lincoln in his capacity as Commander-in-Chief, rather than the equivalent of a statute enacted by Congress, or a constitutional amendment.
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This is going to be just a quick summary...\nFor the most part, it was not all about slavery. The states North of the Mason-Dixon line were content with slavery in the South...the problem was the "Westward Expansion." The North wanted the new states to be free from slavery, whereas the South wanted those states to be open to slavery. There were a few compromises made years before the actual war began, however, those obviously did not work. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina announced it's leave from the Union...Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas followed. \nOn February 4th, 1861, the Confederate States of America was formed with Jefferson Davis as the president. A new constitution was drawn up. Key differences were:\n*The president and vice president were elected for six year terms whereas the North had only four years. \n*The protection of slavery in new territories was given. \n*No slave trade with Africa\n*President Davis could take a loan for $15 million for the creation of a military force of 100,000. \nPresident Davis was inaugurated February 18, 1861. \n\nPresident Lincoln for the Union said, "Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face and face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after seperation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends?Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old quesetions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend' it..." (Page 8)\nThe first shots of the Civil War were fired on April 12th, 1861 at Ft. Sumter, South Carolina. The fight lasted for thirty-four hours, and ended by the North surrendering. The war continued until April of 1865. \nAfter it was all said and done, most of the South was destroyed and the loss of lives on both ends, are up to this day, only an estimate (over 100,000). It is said, the number of Yanks and Rebels who died are greater than the loss of American lives in both World Wars, the Korean War, and the Vietiman War...all combined.\n\nI hope this has been helpful to you. Here are some other books to check out if you are really interested in the Civil War:\n-"After the Civil War" by John S. Blay\n-"The Life of Johnny Reb" by Bell I. Wiley\n-"The Life of Billy Yank" by Bell I. Wiley\n-"Embattled Courage" by Gerald F. Linderman\n-"The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating Facts" by Burke Davis
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Actually he didn't resign, he had to give up the belt and take some time off because of a spinal injury that accured during a match.  He had to have major surgery so he couldn't wreslte for a while. He be back soon though.
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Ulysses S. Grant, poor man, will probably hang on to his worst President ranking for some time to come.\n\nHaving said that, this President has, for all his vaunted business experience, done a particularly crappy job in choosing and managing people.\n\nAnd they, in turn, have done a particularly crappy job in running the Administration.
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One officer who is afraid of his own troops because of his own misconduct.\n\nThese losers have been claiming that they are the 'tip of the iceberg' for 3 years.\n\nFor a reality check - simply look at the Army's re-enlistment numbers.  If there were as many disgruntled soldier as you hope - the Army would not be 15% over this years goal for re-enlisting troops already.