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History is often not what we read or what the principal actors would have us believe.  US Grant was one such actor and his extraordinary memoirs are a work of art, history and fiction.  No place more so than in his protests when he stated that he had no expectations that the various bayou expeditions he authorized would succeed.  For sometime we took that for granted until we actually examined the expeditions, walked the grounds and read the contemporary correspondence.  Afterwards we asked ourselves why did he deny the brilliance of the conception of these efforts?  True they failed, but they were something!

This study shows us the intellectual agility of US Grant and his willingness to “get at the Rebels” in any way that he could.  This program shows Grant on the offensive—the risks are very high and there are points in which failure could be catastrophic!  Here we will look at joint operations and the key developing relationship between Admiral David D. Porter and both Sherman and Grant.

This program will take you into the backwater, up on levees and into tight, vegetation laced roads.  While you are there you will see sites that haven’t been examined more than 5 times in the past 146 years.  Indeed I will guarantee we will go places that you have never been before and which no study group except the BGES has ever taken on or tried to present—even the US Army staff rides haven’t tried this.

We can only support two vans—buses cannot go where we will go.  This will be roughing it and you are in for a treat. 

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