Currently reading “Grant” by Ron Chernow...I’m Southern Born and Southern bred - and this book has given me more a lot more respect him. It’s a great read.
Thanks, I’ll check it out. I read William T. Shermans autobiography a long time ago and what I found interesting is he called the Confederates “Democrats”, for example “We went over the hill and found the Democrats ready for battle” Doh! Speaking of Grant I visited Grants tomb a few years ago in Manhattan and it was very moving. You walk in there and there’s one security guard sitting at a desk which is probably how it’s been since the late 1890s, and right there in the center you look down and there is him and his wife laying right next to each other in separate cement coffins, tombs, whatever they call it.
One of the best men to ever hold the office. He was surrounded by grifters, but he was not the cause and not in it.
He was deeply into the idea of bringing the south back into the fold and healing America. There is a reason regular people everywhere loved him so much.
Its sickening to see people always list him among the worst presidents, and then to see who they think were the best ones.