Everybody should see this.

@barjoe Yes, they should.

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@barjoe I think there is a book by that name ...

@AtheistInNC Ray Bradbury.

If you look at Nazi Germany, they had Nuremberg Trials. These people were imprisoned and in some cases put to death. In Germany today Nazi flags, swastikas are illegal. That is what should've been done after the Civil War. They should've all been tried for treason. Robert E Lee and Jefferson Davis should've went to the gallows. The big mistake at Appomattox. Appeasement to the enemy.

@barjoe I get so sick of hearing southerners bitch about how poorly they were treated during Reconstruction. The problem with Reconstruction was it ended too soon, and allowed them to go back to their racist and aristocratic ideals.

How bad was their treatment when the US Civil War was the only one in history that wasn't immediately followed by mass executions?

@JimG Lincoln was assassinated. Appeasement did nothing to prevent that. Lee should've been apprehended at Appomattox and a warrant issued for Jefferson Davis. Firing Squad or gallows. The South would have gotten over it by now. Because of appeasement they're still carrying on after 150+ years.

What did you think?

@barjoe I thought it was good. There was a general impression that Grant was just an alcoholic. While it’s true he had a drinking problem, he was also a very talented general and politician. The series dispelled numerous misconceptions about him.

Monuments to American heroes, not enemy combatants. You don't see statues of Hitler, Mussolini or Hirohito in the United States! Why should we have monuments and military bases honoring these traitors to our country.

@barjoe You know who Sherman was, right?

@Gareth General William Tecumseh Sherman. Tecumseh was an Indian Chief. There was a native American civil war general named Isaac Watie. Sherman burned Atlanta. Sherman tanks are named for him. Grant was the true hero tho. He orchestrated defeat of the Confederacy.

@barjoe Okay. I just couldn't see the relevance of your first reply.

@Gareth So not just Sherman. African American Union soldiers, General Watie a Native American Union General, Abner Doubleday, General Scott. They've made Rebel traitors more famous than our union heroes

@barjoe Perhaps you missed the joke, because Sherman has a special place in the hearts of Dixielanders.

@Gareth I live in Philadelphia, I don't know that much about preferences of goobers.

Wow, very strange and nobody talks about it.

So fucked up!

You can thank a Virginian by the name of Woodrow Wilson for that.

Don't judge democrats by civil war era and don't give the modern GOP any credit for Lincoln and Grant. Abraham Lincoln would be a Democrat today, I'm convinced of that. The Democrats of 19th century would be Republicans today. KKK staunchly supports Donald Trump. He's the MLK for the racist alt-right

@barjoe - I can separate them, but I remember the line from "Grant" on the History Channel where it said progressive policies of were kept from being enacted because of the Democrats.

That could be a headlines from recent current events. Corporate Democrats are the worst. I expect the GOP to try to screw me over, but it's the Dems that close the deal more times than not.

I think Creepy Addled Uncle Joe just might give Dolt 45 a second term.

These are indeed perilous times, particularly as the DNC tries to pass Biden off as the"safe" choice.

@WilliamCharles Bro I don't want to hear your agenda. Everybody has their flaws. Vote for whoever you want.

Read Edward Bonekemper’s book focusing on Grant’s military career recently. Raises the same issue of how his memory is often tainted by a Southern perspective.

Just before he died he finished his autobiography at the insistence of Mark Twain which left money for his family

He did complete his memoirs shortly before his death. They were published by Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and his family was paid handsomely. Grant died from lung cancer, he smoked heavily.

@Sierra4 He wrote his memoirs knowing he was dying, and so held nothing back. His work still stands up well in terms of candor, but also literarily: he was a surprisingly good writer.

@The-Krzyz Mark Twain edited it after Grant's death, that's why it's such a page turner. He deserves better. He was our first Civil Rights president and along with Lincoln the only liberal Republican presidents.

@barjoe True, Twain edited, but that is far from ghost- rewriting the original, which still was a good work. Most of our venerated modern authors had editors, who usually worked with the publishing houses. They are seldom known outside of that literary world, and the job is hardest with the best writers: how to tighten up and sharpen the work without treading on the original genius contained within.

@The-Krzyz Every writer has an editor.