What a moron. Heroin was not even INVENTED when Grant was kicking confederate ass.
What other moronic tales do you have for us? Grant was a cannibal child-molesting cross dresser?
Just wait. He'll tell us that he read it in a book whose title he can't remember now, then get angry when we don't just swallow it.
He was a cokehead and a drunk, thought it's possible that someone mistook one of his abuses for opium use.
which marks you as too ignorant to discuss almost ANYTHING about the 19th century with,rationally.
in point of fact, DR. S.L.A. MORTON invented the drug we NOW call HEROIN in 1848 at a hospital in London, by "washing crude morphia base with dilute hydrochloric acid".
by 1860 (the drug we NOW call) heroin was routinely prescribed (mixed with aspirin) for everything from broken bones to toothache. (that is why drug addiction was called the "doctors malady" in that period. there was, of course, no "pure food & drug act" then.)
Dr. Morton was TRYING to find a "cure for morphia dependence", when he "discovered" heroin AND a safer alternative to MORPHINE, to use as a analgesic.
GEN grant had been given the drug for a "fall the patient suffered from a horse".
free dixie,sw