Hangin' With Mr. Milton William Cooper CushVlog 07.30.20

Hangin' With Mr. Milton William Cooper transcript.

{On the power of focusing on your own disposition and the Ulysses S. Grant and the American Civil War}Another classic Sherman quote is:

I'm smarter than Grant, I'm more tactically and strategically adept than him, I've more read more on military theory, but there's one thing that he has me beat on every day and that is that I cannot he said he does not care what the enemy is doing. He fully focuses on his disposition whereas I cannot think of anything else than where the enemy is and it undoes me and that's what undid a lot of uh union generals.

Uh McClellan more than anybody

and the contrast between McClellan and Grant is so poignant because McClellan was the boy genius he was already called they were calling him the little napoleon before the war started he thought of himself as like one of the great American military officers before he lost his first battle which is one of the big things that contributed to him as well as his sympathies for the south and slavery uh because he was a copperhead basically my god terrible disastrous choice but um but anyway had to happen you know losses into lessons.

One of the big reasons he wouldn't fight is because he didn't want to lose he won't want to destroy his impression of himself and the world's impression of him so he just drilled and drilled and drilled and organized the army everybody talks about what a great organizer logistics guy he was like yeah that's all he did no i hope he would be good at it and then when he fought he fought poorly. He won every battle in the seven days, but he retreated after each one because he thought he was about to be overwhelmed he of course he got lee's orders to his divisions they fell into his hands because some asshole courier dropped him and rolled up in some cigars and he still nearly he still thought he still was only able to get a draw at Antietam.

God imagine if grant had gotten these orders, like a wrecking ball and one of the big reasons he lost it he didn't was unable to overwhelm. It's because he wouldn't commit his whole force at once because he didn't want to get beat grant was a loser drummed out of the army for alcoholism only when the army in the first place is because he didn't really have anything else to do failed businessman uh kind of in-laws ashamed of him wishing that their daughter had made a better choice uh so he didn't give a he was he was he was able to concentrate on what was actually in front of him instead of fighting castles fighting armies in the sky like mcclellan and so he loses the first light shiloh and he's like okay we'll win tomorrow i mean my god i i if shiloh had happened to mcclellan i just imagined him like falling on his sword like a roman consul

Yeah grant couldn't even farm for christ's sake in the rich soils of the midwest which is literally that's why people live there is because you can farm there ah yeah no he is grant is the promise grant is the problem is that wig is that wig jeffersonian to wig like yeoman farmer like citizens just the idea of like a whole citizen you know created in the frontier experience but ofcourse there is no such thing as a whole citizen and he had his uh he had his problems and his lacks and his lacunae as we all do and it helped undermine him although i don't

really blame him for

like it's not his fault that

reconstruction ended

uh he he he pursued it with real vigor