Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . notsucceed. There can be no greater mistake than to say thatbecause generals failed in the field they lacked in high the popular estimate of generals, nothing succeeds but suc-cess. I think in many cases—cases that I know—much hard-ship is done. Some of the men who were most unfo
Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . notsucceed. There can be no greater mistake than to say thatbecause generals failed in the field they lacked in high the popular estimate of generals, nothing succeeds but suc-cess. I think in many cases—cases that I know—much hard-ship is done. Some of the men who were most unfortunate inour war are men in whom I have perfect confidence, whom Iwould not be afraid to trust with important commands. It is or2 CHINA—CONVERSATIONS WITH GEN. GRANT. difficult to know what constitutes a great general. Some ofour generals failed because they lost the confidence of thecountry in trying to win the confidence of politicians. Someof them failed, like Hooker at Chancellorsville, because whenthey won a victory they lost their heads, and did not knowwhat to do with it. Some, like Franklin, because somehow theywere never started right. Franklin was my classmate, a verygood man, an able man, who would, I have always believed,have achieved great results if he could have had a A STREET CAD, SHANGHAI. Franklin was a man who should have had a high command in thebeginning, and I think would have been equal to the responsi-bility. Some of our generals failed because they worked outeverything by rule. They knew what Frederick did at oneplace, and Napoleon at another. They were always thinkingabout what Napoleon would do. Unfortunately for their plans,the rebels would be thinking about something else. I dontunderrate the value of military knowledge, but if men makewar in slavish observances of rules, they will fail. No rules willapply to conditions of war as different as those which exist in REQUISITE OF A SUCCESSFUL GENERAL. ,c, Europe and America. Consequently
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