Ulysses S. Grant “was never confused about the fact that, as he wrote in the conclusion to his memoirs, ‘slavery’ was the ‘cause’ of the Civil War.” 
“Grant understood the meaning of grand strategy, Lee did not.” One “joined the South because he was a Virginian,” the other “threw in his lot with the North because he believed in the United States.”
(These are from: wwnorton.com/books/97816314…)
On-the-ground look from Grant about how the U.S. military was used to keep Mexico at bay during/after the Texas Revolution:
Ulysses S. Grant: “The occupation, separation and annexation [of Texas] were, from the inception of the movement to its final consummation, a conspiracy to acquire territory out of which slave states” could be created.
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