Ulysses Grant also has the distinction of being the first POTUS to be arrested - for a traffic violation by an ordinary police officer. A man named West who happened to be black. They became friends after. It was absolutely clear that Grant took seriously anyone who did his actual duty regardless of status or standing or glamour. He could not be intimidated by Lee for this very reason.
Ryan Holiday: Your home state of California restricted voting rights for Asian Americans, which were never more than 10% of the state's population. There can be no doubt that if Blacks represented a comparable percentage that California would have restricted their votes too. California did not ratify the 14th Amendment until 1959. That was 91 years after Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Virginia, and North Carolina. If you want to learn more facts you've never heard that are contrary to your agenda, interview me.
You seem to omit that the former confederate states had to ratify the 14th Amendment in order to be readmitted to the union, while it is ugly that California didn't pass it until 1959, it's it not more horrifying that Mississippi didn't pass the 13th Amendment until 1995. Spare us your attempt at moral superiority.
Grant was labeled the Butcher in the North for so many soldiers dying, at Cold Harbor he left thousands of men to die on the field instead of putting up the white flag to get the soldiers off the field and get them medical care , he once said if Lee had the amount of men and supplies he had it would be no contest
It wasn't Grant's doing, he wanted a cease fire, Lee wanted a formal truce. Read the exchange, Lee was responsible for the deaths of those wounded. Any other confederate commander would have accepted an informal ceasefire.
It wasn't Grant's fault for the deaths of the wounded at Cold Harbour, but Lee's as he refused informal ceasefire in writing multiple times. Lee was the butcher.
No, it was Grant's fault regarding the wounded at Cold Harbor, Lee went by standard war practices of honoring a surrender, Grant refused , so that was the result.
@@McNair39thNC Plus he co-authored a West Point textbook about the Civil War that documents it was *Yankees* who labeled Grant a butcher, not Southerners.
