Grant’s singleness of purpose and his personal, as well as Mexican War experiences, gave him the daunting ability to accomplish what other military leaders in the Union Army were not mentally prepared to do.
“I never held a council of war in my life. I heard what men had to say–the stream of talk at headquarters,–but I made up my own mind, and from my written orders my staff got their first knowledge of what was to be done. No living man knew of plans until they matured and decided.”
“One of my superstitions had always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, not to turn back, or stop until the thing intended was accomplished.”
“In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.”
Ulysses S. Grant
