American Ulysses by Ronald C.White

“By 1863 Grant had advanced into a superb tactician. His battle plan for Vicksburg would be used 123 years later in 1986 as a case study in an Army Operations Field Manual stating that the chracteristics of a modern Air-Land Battle should be ‘surprise, concentration, speed, flexibility, and audacity.’ Crediting Grant, the field manual declared, ‘the same speed, surprise, maneuver, and decisive action will be required in the campaigns of the future.”

-Ronald C. White, 2016