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Revisionist southern historians painted Grant as an ignorant drunk who imposed harsh military rule on the South during Reconstruction. Truth is, he wasn't ignorant, he wasn't a drunk, and he kept troops in the South mostly to prevent freed African Americans from being slaughtered by white mobs.

Grant was unusual for a white man of his day in that news of atrocities commited against former slaves actually bothered him. And, he thought he ought to do something to protect citizens from terrorists. He came down especially hard on the Ku Klux Klan, and whites north and south thought that Grant was going way too far to prevent those poor, oppressed, sheet-wearing white boys from exercising their traditional right to slaughter black people for fun.

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