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Let me tell you what really happened when Adelbert Ames asked Ulysses S. Grant to intervene in Mississippi in 1875.
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Mississippi Democrats planned a shrewd terrorist strategy to triumph in 1875. The "peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must" them of the #MississippiPlan was in fact a program of carefully calibrated political violence framed in an awareness of federal government responses.
Governor Ames had already dealt with an outbreak of violence at Vicksburg, where Grant authorized federal intervention.
Ames was reluctant to mobilize a state militia that would have to draw upon black militiamen.
Ames was reluctant to mobilize a state militia that would have to draw upon black militiamen.
Until Americans see that Reconstruction did much to define what the Civil War did and did not achieve, they will continue to see Appomattox as "Mission Accomplished." #Grant3
What they will not see is that the Confederacy was a means to an end of maintaining white supremacy and the violent suppression of black freedom and opportunity and not an end in itself. Reconstruction was fighting the same struggle in a different way. #Grant3 The terrorists won.
And they won in part because no enough white northerners failed to support black equality with the same commitment or passion as they fought to preserve the Union. And why was that? In part, racism ... which was an American problem. #Grant3
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Last night I commented on #Grant1 (the first episode) after offering some observations earlier in the day about the genre in general. I wasn't surprised by what I saw, and I wasn't surprised by the reactions to it.
Last night I commented on #Grant1 (the first episode) after offering some observations earlier in the day about the genre in general. I wasn't surprised by what I saw, and I wasn't surprised by the reactions to it.
Let me concede at the beginning that I understand that some people will note inaccuracies with reenactor uniforms, terrain, weapons, etc. I tend to let that pass, but sometimes the issues took me out of the moment.
As for Grant, his uniform was wrong (he wore the coat of a major general as a brigadier general; I don't recall it being buttoned that way; he was primarily a pipe smoker before Donelson, and the story about how he used a cigar to direct operations would be funny.
