Kinda nice to read a positive story. Thanks for posting.
US Grant is another guy who gets a bad rap. The guy who wrote a biography on Grant was a sworn enemy out to trash the man. As with Cobb, the enemy’s fake stories stuck.
Cobb was from Georgia and uneducated. The northerners could not handle his greatness. Just like they could not handle Joe Jackson.
I’m reading Ron White’s biography on Grant and while he wasn’t a teetotaler, he most certainly wasn’t a drunk either. Early in military career, he was in charge of temperance in his unit.