It is strange that that CLEAR victory is not even listed on the National Park Service civil war battles. Like I said Van Dorn was an inconvenience . you are grasping at straws to find fault with Grant. Why not mention Cold Harbor - there is a clear Defeat. IRead about General Grant's relationship with General Taylor during the Mexican war, and there you find that he learned to subsist from the land from Taylor not Halleck as you claim.....