Grant – Exact Words

The South – Grant – and what about the cotton strategy?

What about the South choosing to starve the global cotton market instead of flooding it? Because that was incredibly stupid.

Vicksburg – well, first, Grant more broadly – (and an amusing time-traveling sidetrack to Gettysburg)

So I really want to concentrate on Vicksburg but because Vicksburg was really about long, difficult, and seemingly endless preparation and because in that situation the purely personal relationships are key – and because Steve Knott’s Army War College lecture is so good – I’m going to put it up first so that at least…