Grant's siege of St Petersburg

 

Just before Lee surrendered.  I like this siege better than his siege of Vicksburg. This siege said one thing to the slave holders, you lost and the industrial North can ring your cities and town. The surrender by Lee was ex post. 

This was Grant, by this time, totally pissed at cheating, slaveholding southern idiots, his real revenge.  

This started for him in the Mexican American war, which he say as a land grab by slave holding ass holes.

Lee never owned slave, he was your basic separate and slightly equal Dixie democrat.  He once had to deal with slaves as an administer of an estate, but otherwise was complete military. That was not Lee's main issue, but Grant was quite passed at the institution, and developed a deep dislike for the southern aristocracy. Grant had Lincoln, Lincoln was pouring material and men into the fight, and Grant was the pro in logistics, the best quartermaster the army had up to that time. He knew how to keep soldiers fed and armed.

If it wasn't Grant in uniform, he would have showed up somewhere in the supply chain as a civilian. He was a clerk and stock boy first, a real Walmarter.  Her had that skill as quartermaster, then sore manager, then army general.  The army moves on its stomach, and he knew that first and best.

They were all military engineers, Lee, Grant, the rest of the cadets. They knew siege, but logistic won the war. In the final months, Grant had ships and rails pumping material straight into Virginia.