[NKP_Vet]

When asked when he waited till the 25th Amendment was passed in Dec 1865 to free his slave, Grant said “good help is hard to find.”

The Union Army was given instructions that the first Confederate soldiers to be shot were black soldiers fighting alongside whites, of which there were many. Yankee history books ignore this well-established fact.

[rockrr]

Grant never said that.

[Bull Snipe]

You need to read your history a little closer. General Grant was dead a long time along time before the 25th Amendment to the Constitution was signed.

That aside, cite the written “instructions” the army was given to shot black soldiers serving in the Confederate Army. If you can.

[DoodleDawg]

Yankee history books ignore this well-established fact.

Maybe because, you know, it never freakin' happened?

[BroJoeK]

NKP_Vet: "When asked when he waited till the 25th Amendment was passed in Dec 1865 to free his slave, Grant said 'good help is hard to find.' "

First, the 25th amendment was ratified on February 10, 1967 and it's the one our lunatic left keeps bellowing at President Trump, right after "impeach 45".

So obviously, you meant to post, "13th amendment", which did abolish slavery, on December 6, 1865.

Second, Grant's family was anti-slavery and Grant owned no slaves, but Grant's wife Julia (Dent) was a wealthy Southerner and her family did own, many.
When Grant managed their farm, he managed their slaves.
In 1858 Grant's father-in-law gave Grant a slave, William Jones, said to be worth $1,500 at a time when Grant was near bankrupt.
Grant gave the slave his freedom in early 1859.

It has been said that Julia (Dent) Grant kept personal servants during the Civil War up until the time of Lincoln's emancipation in mid-1862 and the comment above may have been hers.

Btw, Julia Dent was a cousin to CSA Gen. Longstreet.

NKP_Vet: "The Union Army was given instructions that the first Confederate soldiers to be shot were black soldiers fighting alongside whites, of which there were many.
Yankee history books ignore this well-established fact."

Nonsense, that's just Democrats doing what Democrats do -- look deep in their own souls and accuse Republicans of whatever evils they find there.
In fact it was Confederates who refused to take Union colored troops prisoners -- one thing that made Union black soldiers such fierce fighters.

The truth about Confederate black soldiers is that, except for the occasional body servants standing along side their masters to reload rifles, there were none.
There were, of course, many tens of thousands of slaves supporting Confederate armies in every way possible except as fighting soldiers.