Different issue but not unrelated. Grants tomb in New York City was all but abandoned and left to fall apart for decades. Only partly restored. Grant was a vastly better general than Lee, helped save the union and was a staunch advocate and defender of Reconstruction and ...
2/ political and civil rights of African Americans. That’s not the same as monuments to the horrors of slavery or its opponents and victims. But it’s worth keeping close in mind after more than a century of pro-Lee propaganda.
3/ If you’re interested in Grant or his Memoirs - one of the great works of American literature - probably the greatest written by a major public figure, here’s a 2018 essay I wrote about both. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/thought…
4/ Striking from the comments how many people repeat the largely discredited historical claims that Lee was the better general and Grant was a failed President. History is complicated. But both reputations are largely the work of generations of historians, southern in ...
5/ thinking if not always in origin, whose scholarship was focused on discrediting reconstruction. Grant was the backbone of winning the war and Reconstruction. For the Southern “redeemers” to succeed Grants reputation had to be destroyed.
