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Grant and Sherman made plan at Burnet House that ended Civil War
The Cincinnati EnquirerGrant and Sherman made plan that ended Civil War
Generals Grant and Sherman met in Cincinnati's historic Burnet House hotel and planned the strategy that ended the Civil War.
Jeff Suess,
June 16, 2014
The beginning of the end of the Civil War can be traced to a planning session held in a Cincinnati hotel.
On March 20, 1864, two of the Union's most celebrated generals, Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, holed up in a parlor of the Burnet House, an elegant hotel at the northwest corner of Third and Vine streets, to devise a strategy to crush the Confederacy.
At the time, the historic meeting garnered merely a single paragraph in The Cincinnati Enquirer, running beneath the day's theater listings.
"Sight seekers thronged the hotel," the newspaper reported, but there were no speeches or public announcements. No one knew what was going on behind closed doors....
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