The grape vine telegraph: rumors and confederate persistence.(Viewpoint essay)

From: Journal of Southern History | Date: November 1, 2006| Author: Phillips, Jason | Copyright information

IN JULY 1864 THE NEWS WAS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, GENERAL ULYSSES S. Grant, the "butcher" whose war of attrition had already cost thousands of lives, was dead. A Texas cavalryman serving in Louisiana shared the report with his father. The soldier heard it from a friend who claimed that a captain saw an official dispatch from General Robert E. Lee reporting that "Grant made desperate assaults upon Richmond and was defeated ... and tis said led the last one himself and was killed." The ...

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