Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant
Portrayed by Brian Withrow
Impressionist Brian Withrow and a supporting cast present a program entitled, Origins of the end of the American Civil War. Brian portrays Ulysses S. Grant in 1864-65 from the period of his appointment to the position of General-in-Chief & promotion to the rank of Lieutenant General to just following the end of the war. He is often accompanied by portrayals of members of General Grant’s staff and other General officers such as General Meade and General Sheridan.
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In the field the impression is presented in a reproduction of General Grant’s field headquarters as it appeared in the Eastern Theater as documented in historic photographs and witness descriptions. The goal is to leave an audience with not only an understanding of Ulysses Grant the man, but also the formulation of the “grand strategy plan” and the resulting operational execution that ended of the war.
Origins of the end of the American Civil War Brochure (.pdf)
 Photo by Stacie McKeever.
IT was an interesting study in human nature to watch the general's actions in camp. He would sit for hours in front of his tent, or just inside of it looking out, smoking a cigar very slowly, seldom with a paper or a map in his hands, and looking like the laziest man in camp. But at such periods his mind was working more actively than that of any one in the army. He talked less and thought more than anyone in the service… It was this quiet but intense thinking, and the well-matured ideas which resulted from it, that led to the prompt and vigorous action which was constantly witnessed during this year, so pregnant with events. -- General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant.
"Grant is rather under middle height, of a spare, strong build; light-brown hair, and short, light-brown beard. His eyes are of clear blue; forehead high; nose aquiline; jaw squarely set. His face had three expressions: deep thought; extreme determination; and great simplicity and calmness." -- Colonel Theodore Lyman |
