#tipsywench

[quicksiluers]

For your birthday, I searched through the smithsonian archives and found a lesser known Grant image that I think you'll enjoy...I believe Sherman might have taken the photo

my god...

how could the archives been hiding this BEAUTY from me?!

[quicksiluers]

I gotta ask since now I know you have a dragonlike hoard of books...What's a good book to read about Grant if I don't know too much about the man? Like a good, lengthy biography to fulfill all of my Grant needs?

asdfghjk I love that, that’s basically how I am with my books 😂

ah a great question! If you’re looking for an easy book to find relating to Grant, I would recommend Ron Chernow’s “Grant” book or  Ronald C. White’s “American Ulysses”. Between the two, I like Chernow’s a little more but it’s massive almost 1,000 pages. White’s book is good too, those are probably the new recent ones that would be easy to find.

For me personally, Brooks D. Simpson’s book “Ulysses S Grant: Triumph Over Adversity” is my personal favorite book regarding Grant when it comes to generalship and early life. It only goes through til the end of the Civil War, but I believe Simpson is working on a 2nd volume...not sure when it’s supposed to come out since the first volume came up in the early 2000′s lol. But! Brooks has a great way of writing, I believe you can find it on Amazon right now for $10.

Orrrr if you wanna read Grant’s own writing afterward, I would highly recommend his memoirs! They are fantastic, I love them. 

[quicksiluers]

tipsywench replied to your post “i said “fuck it” and decided that i’m going up to the grant cottage...”

I live 2 hours from the Grant childhood home and less than an hour from Sherman's, but the idea of going and freaking out like "omg I read about these boys, I know these boys," while a historian stares at me...lol.

asdfghj it’s gonna be so embarrassing cause i’m gonna be like “oh my god this is where grant wrote his memoirs and died and i just!” and i’m sure the nice guide who will be there will be like “uh yes...are you ok??”

[quicksiluers]

tipsywench replied to your photoset “Drove down to VA today to check out the wilderness and spotsylvania...”

The wilderness seems like the most intense thing I've ever read. Fighting in that just seems really terrifying.

it really had to be, just walking around some of the areas...it’s crazy that they did so much fighting there in that 2 day span, just the amount of trees they have to cut through and hiding behind the earthworks...a trying to see other people through there too, the visibility even today isn’t that great

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tipsywench replied to your post “i was listening to a random lecture on joe hooker (cause why the hell...”

I think I read this the other day in McDonough's book. If I remember, they both just glared at each other then walked down the hill their separate ways once the threat got too intense. I’m gonna look for the part in the book once I get off work. I remember reading it and thinking, "wow these men are dumb children" lol

ok! yeah that’s exactly what the person mentioned in the lecture, which was cracking me up. imagining the two of them just glaring at each other as things are exploding and then slowly walking away down the hill...i mean...it’s very much “children, please.”

[mickeyaltieri-slut]

You have the greatest tumblr name that I've ever seen. It's beautiful.

Thank you. :’)

[rogerdelgado]

Bob Dylan quote of the week:

“If dogs run free, then why not we Across the swooping plain? My ears hear a symphony Of two mules, trains and rain The best is always yet to come That’s what they explain to me Just do your thing, you’ll be king If dogs run free”