Winfield scott biography summary
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He received about $10,000. Many future Civil War leaders would learn to fight under the command of Scott in Mexico. Winfield Scott: The Soldier and the Man Retrieved November 6, 2007.
Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, 1717-1718. However, Scott's vanity, as well as his corpulence, led to a catch phrase that was to haunt him for the remainder of his political life. Scott returned to the military and when the Secession Crisis emerged in 1860 he urged President James Buchanan to prepare for war. Scott hoped to limit casualties and was aware that the Union did not have a big enough army to conquer so much territory at once.[4] The South would be economically crippled after it had been isolated from the rest of the world.
In his own campaigns, General Scott preferred to use a core of U.S. Army regulars whenever possible. Such was his stature that, in 1852, the United States Whig Party passed over its own incumbent President of the United States, Millard Fillmore, to nominate Scott in the United States presidential election. In spite of this blemish on his record, he was eventually promoted to lieutenant colonel and posted to the New York frontier just as the War of 1812 was beginning.
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This illustration of the Anaconda Plan depicts the “Great Snake” Scott devised to blockade Southern ports.
Scott's early years in the U.S. Army were tumultuous. His approach to war also had an important effect on Lee, who saw in Scott a gentlemanly general, obsessed with looking the part and playing according to the established rules of war. Pierce was elected in an overwhelming win, leaving Scott with the electoral votes of only four states.
As such, Scott earned the ire of General Andrew Jackson, the hero of the Battle of New Orleans (1815), who was busily building an entire career out of antielitism. Following a successful twenty-day siege that resulted in the surrender of Veracruz, Scott started his drive toward Mexico City. George G. Meade, Ulysses S. Grant, and Thomas J.
Jackson served in Scott’s army.) Setting off for the Mexican interior, Scott spent a year fighting and marching before reaching the outskirts of the Mexican capital.
Opposed by superior numbers, he was forced to cut off his army from its regular supply lines in order to move more quickly. New York: MacMillan Co., 1937. Two years later he published Memoirs of Lieut.-General Scott, LL.D., a two-volume autobiography, written in the third person, whose title carries a perhaps self-aggrandizing mention of the general’s honorary doctorate from Columbia College in New York City.
Scott’s death, on May 29, 1866, was marked by solemn salutes and accolades and the closure of both the executive branch of the government and the New York Stock Exchange.
Scott's anti-slavery reputation undermined his support in the South, while the Party's pro-slavery platform depressed turnout in the North, and Scott's opponent was a Mexican-American War veteran as well. Orphaned at age seventeen, he was well equipped by then to set out on his own.