When Lincoln Kissed Me (A Story of the Civil War Wilderness Campaign)

He accepted my terms without hesitation, only suggesting that my statement to my paper be so full as to disclose to the public the general situation.

Exploring the Civil War-era landscape in the Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania region.

Perry wrote in A Bohemian Brigade: The Civil War Correspondents: He was a gentle, innocent though persistent young man, serving after the war as a Methodist preacher in Iowa and Connecticut. And surely he was the only reporter who was ever kissed by Abraham Lincoln. Wing made his report to Lincoln and several members of the Cabinet. He held back one piece of information to convey privately from General Ulysses S.

President, that there would be no turning back. As Wing later wrote in his memoir of the event: Lincoln put his great, strong arms about me and, carried away in the exuberance of his gladness, imprinted a kiss upon my forehead.

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We sat down again; and then I disclosed to him, as I could not do except in the light of that pledge of the great commander, all the disheartening details of that dreadful day in the wilderness. Grant had hoped to take his army through the woods and engage Lee in clear country on the other side. Lee would have none of that; he attacked Grant on the morning of May 5, in woods so dense that artillery was useless…. Wing published his own book in , fourteen years before Ida Tarbel published hers.

Oh my God They Banned Kenny. Two panzer jocks in the South Seas hoping that soon they'll get lei'd Grant may have started off as a 'media darling'. However, it is my understanding that after the heavy losses sustained in his battles against Lee it was in fact the northern media that labelled Grant a 'butcher'. That seems to have stuck, and historians have gone to some lengths to undo the unfair tarnishing of Grant's reputation. Unfortunately some have gone rather too far, and perhaps been too reluctant to point out Grant's shortcomings as well as his great accomplishments.

Taken 'out of the context' of the unfair 'Grant the butcher' views, they can seem a bit like pro-Grant 'propaganda', leaving one to wonder why if true we don't refer to Grant the Great. Up Front fan In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this Combat Commander series fan The Raven King game publisher Fields of Fire fan. I think you've written an excellent piece but I do have to disagree a bit with this part.

One of the problems with the Overland Campaign is from a historical perspective our views are driven by the press reporting of the time.

This reporting was largely favorable towards Grant. I know the idea that the media would have a bias is unheard of but there is no question when it came to the Overland Campaign for the press Grant was the golden boy and Meade was a convenient whipping boy if the press felt the need to be critical of the Army. The insinuation here as you write this is that Grant felt he had to be in the field to supervise Meade as he could not be trusted in command.

This is in fact not the case as Grant himself said many times both publicly and privately. The reason Grant put himself in the field was to avoid the political quagmire that was Washington. By being in the field Grant felt he could best focus on the war and leave the politics to Lincoln who promised to basically watch Grant's back.

The reason the press was so pro Grant was strictly a matter of personality. Both Grant and Meade were top notch commanders and were actually a good team as their skills and weaknesses complemented each other.

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