“Damn the torpedoes!” Farragut allegedly shot back. “Full speed ahead!”
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/august-5-2023?r=63j6s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#CivilWar #UnionNavy #USGrant #Lincoln

My partner and I have been thinking today about all the different narratives we were told about the civil war and the north/north’s soldiers/generals while growing up.

Outside of Abe Lincoln, I can’t think of a single positive thing. Grant was a drunk and won because he was a butcher. All the other generals were just trash. The north just had more people. The north only fought because they were snaky capitalists that wanted the south’s land (this is the most bitterly amusing one to me now, who is the most naked of all capitalistic money hungry bean counting violent money grabbers than a fucking ENSLAVER?????). And I grew up in a solid blue state that had multiple stops on the under ground railroad and was home to multiple formerly enslaved people that helped organize resistance to slavery and then troops for the civil war!

Dear partner and I have worked very hard over the years to undo and then relearn a proper civil war history- this holiday break we’re going to be watching civil war movies and laughing at the loser confederacy and doing research to find more truth.

What are the narratives you grew up with around the US civil war? And what is a truth you’ve since found out that you think the entire world should know???

#USCivilWar #CivilWar #USGrant #NorthSouth #North #South #Union #Confederacy

April 27 is the birthday of former #POTUS #USGrant who we #quote and back with a picture of #Sensorio in #PasoRoblesCA. If this #quotograph speaks to you please repost it.

"The man who arrested a US president"

US Grant, arrested for speeding his horse!

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0fds9ky/the-first-police-officer-to-arrest-a-us-president

#History #President #USGrant #AfricanAmerican #Policeman #Horse #Speeding #Fine

#history #USGrant Almost finished with Ulysses Grant Personal Memoirs and this chapter is one of the best social analyses I've EVER read regarding North v South attitudes in the USA. And it's as applicable now as it was then. Read on! https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4367/pg4367-images.html#ch68

#USGrant #literature #politics
No political party can or ought to exist when one of its corner-stones is opposition to freedom of thought and to the right to worship God "according to the dictate of one's own conscience," or according to the creed of any religious denomination whatever. Nevertheless, if a sect sets up its laws as binding above the State laws, wherever the two come in conflict this claim must be resisted and suppressed at whatever cost.
From Ch15 of his Memoirs