Yusuf Remili’s Reviews > Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction > Status Update

Grant is now president

At the end of the first part of this book, Grant wins the election. This last chapter of the first part talked about voter suppression in the south and the klans violent terroristic tactics.

More gruesome history

Grant got the nomination unanimously, Johnson’s trial was bogus, Stevens is approaching his end.

Seriously, fuck you Andrew Johnson.

Apparitions in Tennessee (ch.2) begins by talking about the start of the Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee, the pseudo-bureaucratic system of it, as well as the crimes of the early klan. Frank McCord, Pulaski and the early Klan seem to be the main focus in the first six pages of this second chapter.

Andrew Johnson is burning in hell and that’s a small comfort for me.

It is interesting seeing the perspectives of “radicals” of the time like William Pitt Fessenden, Thaddeus Stevens, and George Boutwell. It really shuts down the lazy argument people like to use of “these men were a product of their time”, to justify racism.

Grants character is changing as he’s growing more defiant to Johnson