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American History

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts) Tue Apr 26, 2022, 12:57 PM Apr 2022

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Legacy of Ulysses S. Grant Complicated 200 Years After Birth

The legacy of Ulysses S. Grant isn't getting any less complicated 200 years after his birth.

Grant battered the slave-owning South into surrender as President Abraham Lincoln's top Union general, yet he owned at least one enslaved person before the war.

A Native American man was among Grant's best friends and Grant was sympathetic toward Indigenous people, but he let white settlers overrun their lands as president.

A relentless attacker on the battlefield, Grant failed to prevent corruption in his own administration.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/04/25/legacy-of-ulysses-s-grant-complicated-200-years-after-birth.html