GA Windbreak ,you have got to read this book.
Some of Grants writings were just released and updated here.
This is the most damaging portrayal of Lincoln i have ever read , and you were right ,we never hear about grant because he was a Good President.
I never knew him and LEE had stayed in touch with each other as long as they had.
If it were not for this man ,we would have had this Happen in 1865.
This is a great book guys.
Grant came to office horrified at what he found Lincoln had planed for the Re-construction of the Country.
You People in the South ,although you hate him ,you were to be organized into a labor force to reconstruct the damage Lincoln felt you had caused.
Grant wrote about this ,but he never posted ,or talked about all the things he had found going on in Washington during the war.
He couldn't ,Lincoln was a Saint in the minds of The North ,He did however tell his Friend LEE.
Hopeing that LEEs influence could stem the Hate that Southerners felt for Grant also.
In this Book LEE writes about ( Who is this Marx Person ,and why was he so idolized by Lincoln ).
What is shocking is the Chapters where Grant actually Hid things from Lincoln ,or acted like due to the War, he had never received the Correspondence or letters Lincoln had wrote to him.
Lincoln wanted to place all the high ranking Officers of the Confederacy in Camps pending charges of treason.
A personal ,separate Army was to do this called the Organizers.
Grants ,#1 General Sherman, who he saved from an Insane Asylum in Ohio at the start of the war knew about Grant hiding things ,and was to report it all to Lincoln.
Sherman was placed back under Doctors care for the fits of Rambling he would slip into.
In the end of this Book LEE said of Grant.
( I surly do wish the time for this Man ,to enter the world of Washington Corruption would have preceded Lincoln. His Love for America would have saved this Nation from the Horror we all had to endure ).
We sure need a Grant today , he was a simple man who never really liked the Washington Elite status.
And instead of tearing apart the Constitution ,he Enforced it, and did the best he could with what he had.
Surrounded by the Lincoln supporters who now were afraid to say anything they knew.
I learned that they were attempting to push General Custer into a position to replace Grant,who they intended to impeach for what they were going to release to the public about what he had done to hamper Lincoln.
No wonder we never hear much about Grant ,he was an American.
