both you you seem to believe that the damnyankees were pure as the driven snow, despite HUGE evidence to the contrary. imVho, NOTHING will make you believe otherwise.
BTW walt, why don't you get off the net, figure out that PhD level research cannot be done on GOOGLE or anywhere else except in a LIBRARY, and do REAL research! like all too any of my former students, you are seeming academically lazy and want to take shortcuts to obtain "knowledge", when ORIGIONAL sources require digging deep into "dusty tomes". all the secondary sources, archived on the world wide wierd are NOTHING compared with real research; also endless posting of drivel and long passages of damnyankee wartime propaganda is NOT research.
for TRUTH & dixie,sw
If a letter existed that said U.S. Grant held slaves in 1866, it would be all over the place; it would be a big story.
It obviously didn''t make much of an impression on you since you cannot recall any of the players.
In fact, you are either deluded or deliberately misrepresenting these events--you know, lying.
Walt
I'm prepared to take my chances.