General Grant

All of a sudden I hear a large a bang and I see a canon ball heading straight towards our line of men. I see general grant yelling out orders that none of our men seem to understand after all we are just militia. My name is William Jameson I am 21 years old fighting for the north I am from Wisconsin stationed in Fort Sumter. I can’t even imagine what general grant is has going though his mind. Maybe he is wondering who is attacking us why are we getting attacked and should we fire back.
If there is one thing that I hate after being in the volunteer army it is the sound of gun shots. They have always startled me that is one reason I will probably never be a high ranking soldier once I hear gun shots I can’t think straight I would never be able to give orders to my soldiers. This is one good characteristics that general grant has that gives him the advantage in war. He started yelling out orders he wants us to fire back but it seemed to be making no difference they just had more fire power.
All of a sudden I heard the orders that I thought I would never hear coming out of general Grants mouth. Retreat; we turned our backs and ran towards the fort it was about a half a mile away I was one of the first ones in, do to my speed. I ran up the north stairwell to the roof once there I could help but notice the bodies that lay on the ground in front of the fort those were the ones who did make it. Once in the fort I was standing next to general Grant he was the first one in because he was on a house at the start of the battle and on one knows how to a handle a horse better then general grant; I heard once that he was one of the best house handlers in union probably due to him growing up with horses all around him.
In addition to that the battle carried on for 39 hours we were out numbered 500 to 80 not only that we couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn. During those long 39 hours I couldn’t help but notice some of the generals flaws like I noticed that he couldn’t stand the site of blood and in addition to that he hated war in general he just looked so uncomfortable the whole time. Although that is very understanding having all of those men counting on you to tell them the right orders.
In conclusion we had to surrender the fort to the confederates; but that wasn’t the only battle in the civil war there were many others that general Grant and myself took on first hand and it turned out that we everyone a couple to.