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Ulysses S. Grant Died 130 Years Ago. Racists Hate Him, But Historians No Longer Do.
The Huffington Post ^
| 23rd July 2015
| Nick Baumann
Posted on 07/24/2015 2:30:32 PM PDT by the scotsman
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To: the scotsman
Who is buried in Grant’s Tomb?
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posted on
07/24/2015 2:33:35 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
( NASCAR 2015: "Bootlegger to boot licker"--FReeper Crim)
To: Rebelbase
No one. The deceased aren’t “buried “ in a tomb:-)
To: Rebelbase
Maybe they can dig up Bedford Forrest and put him there.
To: the scotsman
His liver hasn’t been officially declared dead.
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posted on
07/24/2015 2:38:07 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: the scotsman
Actually his memoir is well written.
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posted on
07/24/2015 2:38:44 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: the scotsman
if only one could go back in time , bearing a scoped Whitworth , at Pittsburg Landing ....
To: the scotsman
Live him or hate him
Grant knew how to win.
Wish we had him for the fight against muslim terror
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posted on
07/24/2015 2:40:24 PM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: central_va
I’ve got Grant’s memoir sitting on the shelf beside me. It is indeed a great read.
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posted on
07/24/2015 2:41:27 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
( NASCAR 2015: "Bootlegger to boot licker"--FReeper Crim)
To: LeoWindhorse
I was thinking the (almost) same thing earlier today. Imagine how many lives could have been spared if someone had just put a bullet in jeff davis’s brain as he abandoned the senate.
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posted on
07/24/2015 2:41:57 PM PDT
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: Rebelbase
IMO I think his publisher Mark Twain helped him.
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posted on
07/24/2015 2:44:39 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: 2banana
Grant was good at turning the handle on Lincolns meat grinder.
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posted on
07/24/2015 2:45:40 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: rockrr
How much of a plus was Davis to the Confederate war effort, though?
MacKinlay Cantor has Grant dying in a riding accident outside Vicksburg in his If the South Had Won the Civil War. But he also has to make Lee's Gettysburg gamble pay off in the capture of Washington DC.
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posted on
07/24/2015 2:48:28 PM PDT
by
x
To: Rebelbase
Find out what kind of whiskey he drinks so I can send a barrel of it to all my generals. - A. Lincoln
To: x
Lee always spoke very highly of Davis.
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posted on
07/24/2015 2:50:01 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: the scotsman
... But Historians No Longer Do. Most historians are statists. Grant was a monster who broke with centuries of precedent governing the conduct of war. When he couldn't defeat Lee in the field he turned to making war on civilians. Western civilization had not seen that kind of barbarism since the Thirty Years War.
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posted on
07/24/2015 2:50:32 PM PDT
by
SeeSharp
To: the scotsman
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posted on
07/24/2015 2:51:45 PM PDT
by
xp38
To: the scotsman
Here is President Grant writing his memoirs as he had been stricken with cancer and
he hoped the sales from the book would take care of his family after he died.Yeah, in those days, the president did not get millions in benefits when they left office.
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posted on
07/24/2015 2:53:06 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(If I'm ever accused of being a Christian, I'd like there to be enough evidence to convict me)
To: SeeSharp
Actually IMO the Army of the Potomac was the best behaved union Army. Not saying much though. They were good at marching south and running north.
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posted on
07/24/2015 2:53:30 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: x
If for no other reason that to cut the head off the snake.
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posted on
07/24/2015 2:53:41 PM PDT
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
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