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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Oct 2017

    There's an element of class bias in why loser aristocrat Robert E. Lee has been celebrated more than victorious plebe Ulysses Grant.

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      1. Augustus Melmotte‏ @EnriqueDiazAlva 31 Oct 2017
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        Or it could just be the racism.

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      1. Elsworth Amasa‏ @wfrolik 31 Oct 2017
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        Especially odd given the latter fought for Emancipation and to save the Union while the former committed treason in defense of slavery.

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      1. Trip McNeely‏ @SideOfHash 31 Oct 2017
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        I think class differences are the least of our concerns when it comes to comparing the two.

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      2. Joe DeMartino‏ @thetoycannon 31 Oct 2017
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        Ben Grierson should be a household name but he was a mere music teacher pre-War. The man was a cavalry genius who was *afraid of horses*

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      3. OldHound‏ @oldmanDerby 1 Nov 2017
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        He sounds like a man ahead of his time. In addition to his civil war record, he championed and commanded the black 10th Buffalo Soldiers

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      1. Bobby Cosmo‏ @Bobsalltimehits 31 Oct 2017
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        Interesting! I still think it’s mostly an outgrowth of the Lost Cause prism and pervasive structural racism that permeates the culture.

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      1. Jim Carey‏ @careyjimzz 31 Oct 2017
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        Lotta truth to this. After all, Grant soundly defeated Lee's Army of Virginia.

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      2. (((Margaret Adams))) 🌻 🌻‏ @peggysadams 31 Oct 2017
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        Same reason the same dupes venerate Rommel

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      3. Obama freed the gays  🇺🇦‏ @Nitzky89 31 Oct 2017
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        Rommel wasn't an aristocrat, ironically that's why Hitler liked him...

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      1. DJGOLDEN‏ @FREE_REMARKS 31 Oct 2017

        FunFact : Meade and his Pennsylvanians broke through Jackson's line at Fredericksburg. Superiors failed to send up reinforcements. Epic fail

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