The action in may in june. And the famous duel between Ulysses S Grant and robert e lee. The big showdown between in each case the best general that each side had i think this campaign has been more misunderstood and misinterpreted than maybe any other campaign in the civil war. I think the reason reason is because of expectations. You know today in politics you would see say theres a president ial campaign. The primary campaign is going on and several candidates are seeking the nomination of one of the parties and theyre coming up on one of the nominating the primers the state primary and youll typically youll hear some politicians say oh if i finish in the top three, that will be a win that if i to finish in the top three, ill be very happy or Something Like that. And of course, hes trying to manage expectations. Because if he does that successfully and if people and the press and so forth buy it, yeah Top Three Finishes a win for him and he finishes number two, you know. Oh wow, tha
I think the reason reason is because of expectations. You know today in politics you would see say theres a president ial campaign. The primary campaign is going on and several candidates are seeking the nomination of one of the parties and theyre coming up on one of the nominating the primers the state primary and youll typically youll hear some politicians say oh if i finish in the top three, that will be a win that if i to finish in the top three, ill be very happy or Something Like that. And of course, hes trying to manage expectations. Because if he does that successfully and if people and the press and so forth buy it, yeah Top Three Finishes a win for him and he finishes number two, you know. Oh wow, thats great. You know he exceeded expectations. But on the other hand if he doesnt bother to manage expectations or if hes not successful at it doesnt get people to buy it then you know, he finished his second. Oh, wow. What a loser. What a defeat for him. He finished second the thi
The big showdown between in each case the best general that each side had i think this campaign has been more misunderstood and misinterpreted than maybe any other campaign in the civil war. I think the reason reason is because of expectations. You know today in politics you would see say theres a president ial campaign. The primary campaign is going on and several candidates are seeking the nomination of one of the parties and theyre coming up on one of the nominating the primers the state primary and youll typically youll hear some politicians say oh if i finish in the top three, that will be a win that if i to finish in the top three, ill be very happy or Something Like that. And of course, hes trying to manage expectations. Because if he does that successfully and if people and the press and so forth buy it, yeah Top Three Finishes a win for him and he finishes number two, you know. Oh wow, thats great. You know he exceeded expectations. But on the other hand if he doesnt bother to
very happy or something like that. and of course, he s trying to manage expectations. because if he does that successfully and if people and the press and so forth buy it, yeah top three finishes a win for him and he finishes number two, you know. oh wow, that s great. you know he exceeded expectations. but on the other hand if he doesn t bother to manage expectations or if he s not successful at it doesn t get people to buy it then you know, he finished his second. oh, wow. what a loser. what a defeat for him. he finished second the thing with this campaign right here. what s called the overlyan campaign grands campaign up to the point that he gets to petersburg. is that promoting there. yeah the thing with this is that the guy who finishes first winds up being looked at as a loser because of expectations. now grant we ve already met grant before and we ve seen some of the reasons why expectations are high for him. so we saw his brilliant success at the battle of fort donald
do futally that that union futility and virginia now for three years that grant should do that that should happen. northern politicians are for it. actually. it s a bipartisan thing. it s not just republicans who want to see that happen. it helps that grants political background is unclear grant by this time really is a republican but his and it seems for more democrat and he s never been very political. anyway, so both parties are eager to see a main general. in fact the democrats kind of would like to recruit him to run for president in 64, which he s hearing nothing of that won t have that at all. but he gets that promotion lincoln is is eager to promote him. he gets the promotion to lieutenant general. the only lieutenant general three-star general in the union army at that time the only person to hold the rank of full three-star lieutenant general since george washington kind of a select company there. winfield scott we saw before was a brevet lieutenant general three st