Who is buried in Grant’s Tomb?
His liver hasn’t been officially declared dead.
Actually his memoir is well written.
if only one could go back in time , bearing a scoped Whitworth , at Pittsburg Landing ....
Live him or hate him
Grant knew how to win.
Wish we had him for the fight against muslim terror
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.
Yeah, in those days, the president did not get millions in benefits when they left office.
Visited Grant Cottage several years ago at Mt. McGregor, NY. The place has been kept exactly the same since the day he died. The clock was stopped at his time of death, and the floral arrangements (now dried) sent by the G.A.R. and other organizations are still on display. Even the bed he died in is where it was back then. Very eerie.
Grant was a nice guy, it was his friends and appointees that screwed his administration up. He put his trust in the wrong people. Another post war general made President, like IKE, he was drafted for the job. History will be kinder to Grant eventually. I think I still have 2 first editions of his memoirs.
The drunkenness was BS that seems to have been based in a single incident that happened as a cadet. However as an adult he wasn’t much of a drinker because he didn’t handle alcohol well and knew it. I remember reading a letter he sent to another general who had sent him some whiskey. He thanked the general but said that he had given the whiskey to an aide because alcohol was “disagreeable to my disposition”
Reconstruction was a mess with a LOT of blame to go around.
Unfortunately popular history is the worst. Its full of inaccuracies and polluted by agendas and sensationalism.
Ty Cobb’s racism
George Custer’s incompetence
Edgar Allen Poe’s drug addiction
They appear to be based on very thin evidence or outright falsehoods.
It become evident when you look into lesser known historical events. If you look at the River Raisin massacre during the war of 1812 you find that pretty much all combatants agree about what happened. It happened deep in the Michigan territory on the frontier and didn’t capture public attention the way the battle of New Orleans did despite the Frenchtown casualties being the greatest single day loss of life in the war of 1812.
There are 9 Kentucky counties named after men who fought there.
Allen County (after Lieutenant Colonel John Allen)
Ballard County (after Major Bland Ballard)
Edmonson County (after Captain John Edmonson)
Graves County (after Major Benjamin Franklin Graves)
Hart County (after Captain Nathaniel G. S. Hart)
Hickman County (after Captain Paschal Hickman)
McCracken County (after Captain Virgil McCracken)
Meade County (after Captain James M. Meade)
Simpson County (after Captain John Simpson)
No. 5 of American Presidents. A hero in every way.
Keep in mind that Eric Foner, perhaps the leading historian of the Reconstruction today and who is quoted extensively here, is a Marxist.
A drunken, corrupt, incompetent doesn’t look so bad after Jimmy, Billy, Barry and the current crop in Congress.
After the Siege of Corinth Grant stayed at the Whitfield Mansion and his wife, Julia Dent, joined him. Late Summer after the fall of Memphis Julia enjoyed the furniture at the mansion so much she took most of it home to Galena, Illinois. Confederate cavalry overtook Julia between Corinth and Memphis and her wagons of furniture but didn't know who or what they had come across and Ms. Grant did not tell them who she was. The Confederates thought that she was a woman fleeing the Federal Army. The Confederate Cavalryman that wrote about the experience also thought her to be one homely woman.
I stopped reading after the author stated that you had to go to LBJ to find a person who had done as much for blacks. Is he insane? Everything LBJ did was to destroy the black family and the chances of blacks being successful.
Grant was indeed a great man. Much of his best work was done reconstructing the South.
Jean Edward Smith recounts the story about Grant threatening to resign if Robert E. Lee was tried for treason. At the surrender at Appomattox, Grant had promised Lee that no officers would be prosecuted (in effect) for treason. After President Lincoln was assassinated some Northerners wanted revenge against the South. In June 1865 Robert E. Lee was indicted for treason. General Grant went to the White House and confronted President Andrew Johnson demanding that the terms of the Surrender be kept. He threatened to resign if charges were not dropped and Johnson backed down. Grant’s heart was huge. No doubt, Churchill had Grant in mind with his, “In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnanimity, In Peace: Good Will.”
You guys are fighting a past war all over again.
Now which is better? An iPhone or an Android phone : )
Windows pc vs a mac? : )
Ginger or Mary Ann <— definitely Mary Ann!
On April 20, 1871, President Grant signed the Ku Klux Klan Act which was one of the first anti-terrorist acts ever passed in the world. He more or less crushed the largest terrorist organization of his time, but unfortunately, the Klan eventually recovered and even thrived for some time after Grant was gone. We have been fighting terrorism for a long time.