We lost an American hero 140 years ago today...

You’ll never see a street named after him in the south…

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You’ll never see a street named after him in the south…

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There’s a west grant street in south Baton Rouge…is that not named after him? Serious question.

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Shitty president, no doubt about that

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Who’d you vote for in 1868 and 1872?

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Shitty president, no doubt about that

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His reputation has actually improved dramatically amongst presidential historians. In the late-20th century, most had him ranked near the bottom. Most now rank him in the middle tier.

The Greatest General of the Civil War.

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In 1874, President Ulysses S. Grant used a pocket veto to block a federal bill aimed at protecting the dwindling bison herds.

Grant's decision to veto the bill was rooted in the prevailing sentiment among some officials at the time, who believed that the decimation of the bison population would help in controlling Native American tribes and forcing them onto reservations, and to adopt an agricultural way of life instead of hunting the buffalo and roaming the plains.

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F*ck em

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You’ll never see a street named after him in the south…

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We have a parish named after him not that the citizens had much say in the matter.

Wikipedia

Grant was one of several new parishes created by the Reconstruction legislature in an attempt to build the Republican Party in the state. Founded in 1869, it had a slight majority of freedmen, many of whom had worked on cotton plantations in the area. It was named for U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant[

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You’ll never see a street named after him in the south…of Swaziland

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FIFY

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is pallbearers were William T. Sherman and Philip Sheridan, representing the Union, and Simon Bolivar Buckner and Joseph E. Johnston, representing the Confederacy.

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Folks (particularly with "modern" sensibilities) sometimes forget both how small the army was in the mid-1800s (prewar) period and, even smaller the officer corps was (mostly produced by a single institution, USMA/West Point).

Sam (Grant), Sherman, Sheridan and Buckner were all about the same age and were at West Point together. Longstreet was there during those years, as well. They all served in the Mexican War, most of them under Winfield Scott Hancock, of whom Joe Johnston (himself a contemporary of Jefferson Davis) was a key staff officer.

Bucker was the Governor of Kentucky when both Sherman and Sheridan died, but had only lost an election for governor at the time of Grant's death.

I tell these stories to flash forward to Sherman's death and funeral. Sherman dies of pneumonia during a cold New York Winter in early 1891, at 71. Johnston, still alive at that point, is again a pallbearer, having turned 84 earlier that year. On a bitter cold, wet day in the Capital, an associate reportedly begged Johnston, "Joe? You're an old man. Put on your damned hat!" Responding, "If that was me in there (motioning to the coffin) and Sherman out here, he wouldn't put his hat on."

Johnston died a month later of pneumonia.

#Themoreyouknow

Buckner was also one of Grant's closest friends prior to the outbreak of the war. He helped out Grant when he was at his lowest point, giving him money to get back home to his family after resigning from the Army in disgrace in 1854. Eight years later, that same Buckner would surrender an entire army to Grant at Fort Donelson.