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Anyone going to watch the Ulysses Grant miniseries tomorrow? (Original Post) CatWoman May 2020 OP
Just set my DVR Nictuku May 2020 #1
Yup jpak May 2020 #2
LOL!!!! CatWoman May 2020 #3
Grant said it best about the Confederacy Bradshaw3 May 2020 #10
Of course. Eko May 2020 #4
Yes. RDANGELO May 2020 #5
You bet! CanonRay May 2020 #6
Yes ... looking forward to it. CatMor May 2020 #7
You betcha...Been to his house in Galena, Illinois. ProudMNDemocrat May 2020 #8
Thanks for the heads-up. Grant is *the* most underrated man in US history... First Speaker May 2020 #9
You Betcha! montanacowboy May 2020 #11
Yes. Thanks for the reminder. brush May 2020 #12
Grant and Sherman were great safeinOhio May 2020 #13

Bradshaw3

(7,506 posts)
10. Grant said it best about the Confederacy
Sun May 24, 2020, 11:23 PM
May 2020

“I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse.”

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,783 posts)
8. You betcha...Been to his house in Galena, Illinois.
Sun May 24, 2020, 11:04 PM
May 2020

A very nondescript house for the Civil war era, very modest.

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
9. Thanks for the heads-up. Grant is *the* most underrated man in US history...
Sun May 24, 2020, 11:16 PM
May 2020

...as a general, and as a President...

safeinOhio

(32,668 posts)
13. Grant and Sherman were great
Mon May 25, 2020, 02:38 AM
May 2020

Republican Generals of that era. Never surrendered like the Southern Ones with statues to them.

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