Jefferson Davis married Zachary Taylor's daughter, but she died young. PGT Beauregard was engaged to Winfield Scott's daughter, but her parents interfered, then she died young. Would things have gone differently had the marriages endured?
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Replying to @baseballcrank
Nope. All of the elites on both sides were connected, except maybe Lincoln. Nothing mattered other than him.
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Replying to @paulwlarkin @baseballcrank
Grant wasn't, either. Under different circumstances he would have passed a quiet existence as a math teacher.
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Replying to @_BuckMelanoma_ @paulwlarkin
Yes and no. To be a West Point graduate & Mexican War veteran in the 1850s was to be a part of a very small fraternity where everybody knew everybody.
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