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In the Civil War, Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s first battle against Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was a gruesome three-day brawl that would end with both armies listening helplessly as their comrades burned to death in a dry forest set ablaze by musket fire.
FACT-O-RAMA! ThecarnageafterthefirstdayoftheBattleoftheWildernesswassobadthatsomehistoriansbelieveGrantslunkintohistentandwept.
Grantdidn’twinthefight.SomehistoriansbelieveLeewonbecauseGrantpulledbackandtheRebskeptthefield.Afterthebattle,GrantdidsomethingLeedidn’tforesee;ratherthanretreatasexpected,GrantkeptmovingsouthwardandattemptedtoplacehisarmybetweenLeeandRichmond,Va,thecapitaloftheConfederacy.Grantknewthat,despitelosingroughly17,000mentoLee’s11,000casualties,hehadthegoodstoknockLeeoutofthewar.Hemovedforward.
Letmegetthisoutoftheway:Iamnotabouttocomparetoday’sdimemuseumcastoftheDemocraticPartytoGrant.
Thatsaid,itoccurredtomeasIwaslaughingattheDemocrats’recenta**-goblinrythattheycontinuetomoveforwardwiththeiroriginalplan,despi
