Grant Appreciation Blog @ulysses-s-grant - Tumblr Blog

Introductory Post

Hello! This blog was created by and is run by a history nerd with a huge appreciation for Grant. I respect and adore him while recognising that he was a flawed man with many faults. It is his humanity that captivates me. He's a complex historical figure who I wish more people knew about and cared deeply for, so I will do my best to spread information on him. I think he deserved better and did the best he could with the cards he'd been dealt.

I will fact check anything and everything I post about him, but if misinformation slips through, do not hesitate to reach out to me so I can fix my error! I love history and know how important it is to only share factually correct information. That being said, I am only human so your patience and kindness are appreciated in the case that I do accidentally share false info.

Thank you very much, and I hope through my ramblings and posts, more people can come to love Ulysses S. Grant like I do.

Edit: I’m also neurodivergent and hyperfixated on him, so there are gonna be posts that aren’t professional and are just me being crazy about him. I love this man so much.

-Moose 🫎

#introductory post #introduction post #intro to my blog #ulysses s grant #welcome to my blog

socialistexan

Happy Confederate Surrender Day!

April 27, 1822

On this day in 1822, Hiram Ulysses Grant was born. He would grow into a young man with a love for horses and a pension for humility. He would suffer grievance after grievance, but he would persevere in the face of adversity. The American Civil War would then catapult him into fame, but still he would endure hardship as a civilian and as the 18th U.S. President. Ultimately, he would succumb to cancer, leaving his memoirs to financially support his family in his absence. But today, 203 years ago, he can rest easy in his mother’s arms.

#ulysses s grant #ulysses s. grant #grant posting #HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BOY

phyllisdietrichsonswig

Happy Appomattox Day ❤️

Every time I remember Grant died a few days after completing his memoirs I get teary eyed and feel like running full speed into a wall. He was holding out until he could finish them </3 He needed to be able to provide for his family with him gone </3

#ulysses s grant #ulysses s. grant #grant posting

Bit of a rant after finishing a course on the Civil War

Having completed my American Civil War course last week (probably the most intense course I’ve taken thus far), I can’t stop thinking about the final lecture. My professor, although we had a rocky start, was fantastic, and the way every assignment over the last 15 weeks finally came together to form the bigger picture in the final lecture was amazing. Simply brilliant. And it worked incredibly well to hammer in the danger of the Lost Cause myth. It makes me sad and angry to know that the Lost Cause has ingrained itself into history and has become history when it’s all a sham– desperate excuses to justify the Confederacy’s plight. And it angers me that people to this day believe in it. It angers me to see the ideology spread across the nation in the decades following the war. It angers me to see that this twisted belief has reared its head time and time again. I do feel bad about how destructive the Union was in the South (e.g. Sherman’s March to the Sea) and all the lives that were lost (bloodiest war in USAmerican history). But this simple mythology that took on a much bigger life of its own– that outlived the Confederacy and the Civil War and its creators– this simple lie that former Confederates told themselves to give meaning to their loss– has left so much more damage in its wake. It’s ridiculous. It’s insidious. And that’s why I’m so angry over it. It’s a dangerous mythos that keeps people angry, whether you’re angry because the South lost the war or because you’re angry that Confederate sympathy still exists.

My professor showed us an image taken at the capital during the January 6th insurrection– because it was an insurrection– that showed a man holding the Confederate battle flag in front of a portrait of Charles Sumner. A treacherous flag waving mockingly before a senator who was beat within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for his scathing call-out of slaveholding senators. That’s insanity to me.

I don’t know where I’m going with this. I’m just horrified and angry and wired right now. I loved this class very much and I appreciate just how passionate my professor was throughout the course. I went in hoping to learn more about Reconstruction (because it was called Civil War and Reconstruction), but we spent so much time focusing on the economics and politics of slavery to better understand why the war happened that we ran out of time. But I’m not upset by that. This focus taught me more about this era in USAmerican history that no other course did.

#ramblings #miscellaneous

Happy birthday king you would’ve loved resident evil 4

I’ll pass the message along to my framed portrait of him 😭??

#asks & answers #grant posting #bro?? 😭 now you have me thinking about Grant and video games #I already drew him as a Genshin Impact character once don’t put these ideas into my head