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and the fact that Blue Jacket was dug in. A successful store owner, slave trader, and holder of livestock, he had a large family and a son receiving a British education in Detroit. With so much at stake, Blue Jacket was not about to cede
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“Congress had been quite explicit about this; the previous summer it had passed a resolution specifically disavowing any intent to end the institution of slavery. For a time this remained the essential position of moderate and conservative (i.e., nonradical) Republicans in the North, as well as both “war” and “peace” Democrats, neither of whom believed that freeing Southern slaves was worth spilling Union blood.”
― Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
― Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
“The Radical policy is to proscribe the intelligent, the wealthy, the moral portion of the South, and to place over them the ignorant and degraded and vicious.”
― Grant
― Grant
“He accused Congress of burdening southern states with black voting rights even though blacks had demonstrated little capacity for government and “wherever they have been left to their own devices they have shown a constant tendency to relapse into barbarism.”27 This message claimed the dubious distinction of being the most racist such message ever penned by an American president.”
― Grant
― Grant
“During one Indian war in 1867, Sherman advised Sheridan, “The more [Indians] we kill this year, the less we would have to kill next year.”
― Grant
― Grant
“A certain self-deprecating modesty deceived people into underrating both of them, causing them to miss an underlying shrewdness.”
― Grant
― Grant
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