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And some historians suggest that a major factor was Grant's father (in law?) who was earning beaucoup dollars trading in cotton in partnership with a practitioner of you know what religion. If you want to shut down pops trading, barring Jews would have been a good way to do it.

Yes, I had heard about that before. If that were the case, Grant had a dysfunctional relationship with his father.

There is a duplicity in the author's overstating antisemitism among the Union generals and neglecting to mention that Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest later founded the Ku Klux Klan. Plus, while he talks about Union savagery in comparison with the gentlemanly Confederate soldier, he doesn't mention the decadent conditions in the notorious prisoner of war camps, such as Andersonville.

Forrest was an early member of, perhaps a founder, of the Klan, but did reject their violent racial message, and left. Some would say opposed them, aggressively. The KKK was, as everyone knows, a Democrat political organization from it's inception.

As to Grant, I doubt you could count his dysfunctional relationship's.

There is a duplicity in the author's overstating antisemitism among the Union generals and neglecting to mention that Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest later founded the Ku Klux Klan. Plus, while he talks about Union savagery in comparison with the gentlemanly Confederate soldier, he doesn't mention the decadent conditions in the notorious prisoner of war camps, such as Andersonville.

Justiceseeker, you know that I admire you all to pieces, but your assertion about Forrest is just nonsense. Nathan Bedford Forrest did not "found the Ku-Klux Klan." The Ku-Klux Klan was founded as a lark by a few Confederate veterans of Scottish ancestry in Pulaski, TN in 1866. Its original purpose wasn't even as a terrorist organization. But disguised as ghosts they noticed they frightened the Blacks (this was before they were left wing intellectuals) and that's where the trouble started.

Forrest was the Grand Wizard of the Klan after it became "The Invisible Empire of the South," but he did not found it. Neither was the original Klan anti-Jewish (it even had Jewish members, like Dr. Simon Baruch). It did not burn crosses. The original Reconstruction Klan was very, very different from the various reincarnations of the twentieth century.

Forrest is not a personal hero to me (what with my ancestors being "scalawags" and all), but he did not found the Klan. He wasn't a nice person, though. He was a slave-trader before the war and his soldiers intentionally massacred Black Union soldiers at Ft. Pillow to specifically "prove" that Black soldiers couldn't fight. But if NBF was anti-Jewish, you'll have to prove it.