Former President George H.W. Bush raps Cheney, Rumsfeld in biography

One America News Network ^ | November 4, 2015 | Eric Walsh

[LeoWindhorse]

ok , thank you for the backstory .
I retract my ill informed remarks .
Thanks

[AllAmericanGirl44]

He didn’t write a book, what is cited here is what he told the man who DID write the book.

Just thought you’d like to know.

[Slyfox]

And thank you. U.S. Grant was a great general and a great man.

[LeoWindhorse]

he captured my great grandfather at Vicksburg

[Slyfox]

I have two g-g-uncles who both served at Vicksburg on the Confederate side. While I was doing research on them I read about their regiment and Grant wrote later that he had never seen in his entire time in the Civil War a more brave outfit than that regiment that my uncles were in. I was sort of stunned when I read it.

Both of my uncles were killed and buried at Vicksburg like so many others without a headstone marking their deaths. And there is no record of them receiving a pension.

Grant's treatment of Lee at Appomattox made me a fan of his.

[LeoWindhorse]

My GG along with all other CS forces surrendered by Pemberton at Vicksburg were , after a short time , given a Union parole . Asked to sign and swear to never take up arms against the union again . He did so and was released and allowed to walk home ( which wasn’t very far - Central MS) In his records I can find no sign that he ever broke this parole agreement , he went off the pay records . He did not desert ,although after a time his records began to declare him absent . He stood good to his word . I think after 3 years of war he’d had enough anyway . He was at Shiloh and enjoyed Sherman’s camp’s victuals on the 1st evening . Speaking of Sherman , he was at Vicksburg too. Now there’s a rat for you . I can respect Grant but I hate Sherman .