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Ulysses S. Grant:
"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on." -- General Ulysses S. Grant
Unconditional Surrender:
January 1862 was not a happy time around the Lincoln White House. McClellan's Army of the Potomac was getting nowhere. Then, in February, came a double dose of good news from the West. With 15,000 men and 7 gunboats, General Ulysses S. grant captured Fort Henry, a strategically important outpost on the Tennessee River. Grant next moved on to Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River, informing its commander that he would accept nothing but "unconditional and immediate surrender."
On February 16, 1862, the white flag went up. A Confederate army of 14,000 was captured at Fort Donelson. A week later, rebel forces abandoned the Tennessee capital of Nashville. The North had a new here -- "Unconditional Surrender": Grant. |