General Grant, notably, at several points made the demand for ‘unconditional surrender’ of Confederate forces, which dovetailed nicely with his initials - US Grant.
For his part, he did as much as could be expected of a man who was not really a born politician - when he became president, he pushed to outlaw segregation(!) and outlawed the KKK, with mass arrests by the military and prosecutions for terrorism.
Unfortunately, it wouldn’t outlast his presidency - one of the first things his successor did, even, was withdraw troops from the South even in the face of a new troop surge initiated by Grant in response to white supremacist paramilitaries
Won the war, lost the peace.
General Grant, notably, at several points made the demand for ‘unconditional surrender’ of Confederate forces, which dovetailed nicely with his initials - US Grant.
For his part, he did as much as could be expected of a man who was not really a born politician - when he became president, he pushed to outlaw segregation(!) and outlawed the KKK, with mass arrests by the military and prosecutions for terrorism.
Unfortunately, it wouldn’t outlast his presidency - one of the first things his successor did, even, was withdraw troops from the South even in the face of a new troop surge initiated by Grant in response to white supremacist paramilitaries