Said general, in his memoirs, was also happy to point out how unimpressed he was by Lee.
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and as Gore Vidal made a point to say Grant was probably the best writer to ever have been president.
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Unfair to Grant, a dry drunk who was actually sober most of the time.
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I’m beginning to think that we’re lucky American education left people remembering there was a Civil War at all
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I thought Grant's alcoholism, while very real, was episodic and flared up in times of inactivity and depression, which is to say, not during the civil war?
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Also: he was actually a very good general, and doesn't get credit for it?
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The best thing about every confederate general is when they lost
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That’s always my favorite part of that movie.
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And he fought to a stalemate with McClellan, who is widely agreed to be such a bad general he couldn’t win a battle if he had all his opponent’s plans handed to him wrapped around a bunch of cigars
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