0
How did Gen Grant show good sportsmanship at Appomattox Courthouse?
Wiki User
∙ 12y ago
he stood up for himself
Wiki User
∙ 12y ago
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
What was the Hitler youth?
The Nazi Party's paramilitary youth element called the Hitler Jugend was formed in 1922 and remained in existence until 1945 as a recruiting and training tool designed to produce future party leadership. Some considered it to be simply a form of Boy Scout group however it provided an ideologicical foundation that went beyond good sportsmanship and recreation.
Why was grant more effective than McClellan?
Grant was very different from McClellan. They were both excellent in different fields, but Grant was more effective...McClellan was an excellent planner and had much experience on the battlefield, the problem was that he wasn't a very good leader. He wasn't good at making decisions in a fast-paced battlefield, and often kept many soldiers to doing nothing at very important points of the war. Although McClellan had kept the Union's morale in tip-top shape, they hadn't been doing to good in the war, especially a huge failed attack to seize Richmond, Virginia. Lincoln did not approve of McClellan, and he was out of the major general position after a brief term (November 1861 to March 1862).Now lets move on to Ulysses S. Grant (18th President of the United States)...As many people know, Grant was the last general Lincoln hired and won the Civil War against Robert E. Lee's stellar South. Unlike McClellan, Grant was an aggressive general and seized key points like Kentucky, Tennessee, and the Mississippi River. Grant was a fast-paced general that was definitely needed for the Civil War. The battle that won it all was when Grant's Union army captured Richmond (the Confederacy capital) in April 1865... the final blow for the Confederate army...So yes, Grant was a very effective general. After a series of different generals, Lincoln had found the perfect one!
What side did William t. sherman fight on in the civil war?
He fought on the side of the Union, and moved up because he had made a good team-partner with U.S. Grant.
When grant took control of the union forces where did he personally lead attacks?
Grant did not personally lead attacks, in the sense of getting out in front of the men and leading a charge on the enemy. Grant was a lieutenant general (three stars), the first in the US Army since George Washington. He stayed behind the lines and directed overall operations. Grant had served for the first two and one half years of the war in the west. In the Civil War the "west" meant the area between the Appalachian Mountains and Mississippi River. Because of his success in the west Lincoln brought him to the east, promoted him to the unheard of rank of lieutenant general (he was the only one), and placed him in overall command of the Union armies. Grant left his protege, Sherman, in command in the west, and they coordinated the actions of their armies in such a way as the Union had been very foolish not to do before, to take maximum advantage of the Union's vast superiority in numbers of men. Grant left Meade in command of the Army of the Potomac, the main Union field army in the east, but made his headquarters with Meade's army, so he could oversee its operations. This also got Grant out of Washington and the omnipresent atmosphere of politics, which he detested.At the same time as Sherman was attacking in Georgia, Grant got the army under his direct supervision in motion. Attacking simultaneously made certain the Confederates would be unable to move men from an idle army to reinforce one which was under attack.Grant's first move was to follow the path Hooker had taken almost exactly one year before. He moved west, from Fredericksburg, Virginia, up the north bank of the Chickahominy River, and crossed over to the south side at an unguarded ford. This put his army in The Wilderness, where Hooker had fought the Battle of Chancellorsville one year earlier. The Confederates swiftly attacked, hoping to repeat their success of the previous year. The Confederates knew their best chance of success was to catch Grant in The Wilderness, where his vastly superior numbers and heavy preponderance of artillery was of little use. Their was a ferocious battle, with horrible casualties over two days. All previous Union commanders in the east had pulled back to the north side of the River after taking such losses as Grant had, but Grant was made of sterner stuff. He pressed forward. Over the next six weeks Grant lost more men than Lee had in his army, but Grant did not stop. These six weeks beginning with The Wilderness are known as "The Overland Campaign".Grant kept moving forward and to the left, trying to get around the right flank of Lee's army. This forced Lee to hurry and get in front of Grant, to keep Grant from having a clear path to Richmond. On leaving The Wilderness Lee was so pressed his army had to march all night by torchlight and cut a new road through the woods to travel on. The Rebels reached Spottsylvania Courthouse only a very short time before Grant. Spottsylvania was another awful struggle, the armies remaining there thirteen days. There were several days of tremendous fighting. At one point, the two armies were divided only by the front of Confederate entrenchments - the heap of dirt thrown up in front with logs placed on top, and were shooting each other between the logs. Wounded men were trampled to death. Leaving Spottsylvania Grant tried again to flank Lee, all the while getting closer to Richmond. Though Grant lost enormously during these six weeks, the Confederates were losing heavily in men too. Grant finally actually slipped away from Lee, and tried a very clever move. His engineers constructed a fantastic, 2200 foot long pontoon bridge over the James River, and Grant crossed strong forces to the south side and moved against Petersburg. Petersburg was almost undefended, and was in another department from Lee's. Lee's department was Virginia, north of the James River. Taking Petersburg would cut off all supplies to Richmond and force its surrender, because there was only a single railroad line running north the twenty-five miles from Petersburg to Richmond. All railroad lines from the south converged in Petersburg. Beauregard commanded the department of the southern Virginia and North Carolina, and got enough troops into Petersburg to stop the Yankees from taking the town. The Yankees did not try too hard, and, if they had, the war might have soon been over.Grant had lost many men, but so had the Rebels. Grant was now near Richmond, and Lee did not have sufficient strength to have troops in the defensive earthworks at Richmond and Petersburg, and also keep an army in the field. So as a result of this six weeks of ferocious campaigning Lee was forced into the defenses of Richmond and Petersburg and lost his freedom of movement. Without freedom of movement Lee's strategic audacity and tactical daring, which had evened the odds for Confederates so many times, were useless. Lee himself had said some months before that if ever he was forced into the defenses of Richmond, then "it would only be a matter of time". The Rebels were not yet ready to give up though. The Rebels manned a long line of trenches extending from north of Richmond to south of Petersburg, lying to the east of those cities. The Yankees built their own extensive trenches opposite these, and massive supply dumps and railroad supply lines from landings on the water to the supply depots.From this time, in mid June 1864 until early April 1865, Grant kept extending his lines to the left, forcing Lee to extend his right. Every time this happened Lee had to stretch his thin force farther. Lee could not make good his losses in men and individual starving Confederates made the choice every night to give it up and go over to the Yankee lines and surrender themselves, for a chance at something to eat. These leftward extensions of Grant kept breaking the connections of Petersburg to the south, until finally the last one was broken and Richmond and Petersburg were cut off. Then Lee abandoned his positions and gave up the two towns, and tried to move west with his army. Lee expected supply trains to meet him on this march with food, but the Yankees captured them, and the Confederates lost a day, looking for food in the vicinity with little to show for it. Part of Grant's pursuing army got in front of Lee and cut him off, and Lee was surrounded at Appomattox Courthouse, and forced to surrender. Lee had made it about fifty miles west of Richmond in the week since leaving the entrenchments.Grants Virginia campaigns covered an area between Fredericksburg and Petersburg, maybe eighty miles north to south, and then the fifty miles west to Appomattox. There were the large battles of The Wilderness and Spottsylvania Courthouse, followed by more than ten months of WWI-style trench warfare during Grant's siege of Richmond and Petersburg.
What did William T Sherman do in the civil war?
Nicknamed "Tecumseh," William Sherman was known for being a great American general. He led the burning of Atlanta. He was also a good friend of President Grant, despite the fact that he tried to dissuade him from running for office.
How do you use sportsmanship in a sentence?
"You had very good sportsmanship"" My coach says sportsmanship is an important part of the game."
What is sportsmanship?
Sportsmanship is how a person behaves while playing a sport. Playing by the rules and not being a sore looser is good sportsmanship.
What is the result of sportsmanship?
Winning! Everybody who has good sportsmanship will win, whether they get a higher score or not.
How does sportsmanship affect sports?
Sportsmanship affects sports positively. Good sportsmanship makes players feel good about themselves and their efforts. This causes people playing those sports to feel good about each other.
Who has good sportsmanship everyday?
Eva ShockleyShockley
What is good sportsmanship in baseball?
Shaking hands after the game.
What is a Sentence for Good Sportsmanship?
GOOD GAME.......COULD HAVE GONE ANYWAY................GOOD GAME
Why is good sportsmanship important?
Dear the person that asked the quesiton, Good sportsmanship is if you win you dont rub it in the other teams face and when you lose you just say good game and get ready for the next game
Which sports star is a good sportsmanship?
Aaron Rodgers.he's beast.
What does it mean to have good sportsmanship?
Where you are a good sports. To have good sportsmanship it might be shaking people's hands after a race and say how well they ran. You might say well done when they throw far in shot put, or say good work when they jump high in high jump. Good sportsmanship has anything to do with this.
What was the rule about sportsmanship in the ancient Olympia games?
The athletes in Greece were actually treated like royalty
What display of good will did US General Grant do after Lee's surrender at Appomattox?
Grant allowed Lee's men to go home with their horses. This was done to help Lee's men in Spring planting. He also ordered up 25,000 ration sets to feed Lee's soldiers.
