see-a-head-and-hit-it

Updated: August 9, 2026

"See-a-head-and-hit-it" strategy governed the day and no plan worthy of the name had been adopted for conducting the war on scientific principles. But Grant had studied the maps to some purpose in his office at Cairo and he realized that the possession of the Mississippi River was the key to the situation in the West.

Frederick Trevor Hill - On the Trail of Grant and Lee