
I ran across this on a FaceButt post.
It is very seldom one sees real American history so I thought it worth reposting.
Unless Grant was a drunkard who failed at business, failed as a military tactician, failed as a human, failed as a president.
He was not a military tactician, but understood he could get 3 of his men killed to kill one Confederate as he could replace his dead, but the South could not.
Even Lincoln’s wife said his policy made him a butcher of yankee soldiers.
He failed as a human because he himself oversaw war crimes, gang rapes, armed robbery, mass murder of civilians, and approved of his generals carrying out these war crime policies.
His presidency was the most corrupt in US history until FDR came along.
The Truth of the evil of the US going all the way back to when the Puritans stepped off the Mayflower causes many of the few Americans who know real US history to pretend they don’t know the truth.
The few Americans who tell the real history of evil of the US get sheep shit thrown at them.
The Ole Dog!
October 15, 1864, U.S. GEN. GRANT WAS GUILTY OF FAILURE TO EXCHANGE PRISONERS!
The suffering and death of every wretched prisoner, not only in the Andersonville “hell hole,” but everywhere North and South, after October 15, 1864, is directly chargeable to U. S. Grant, and the ‘Official Records’ prove it without a shadow of a doubt, as the following will show:
GRANT TO BUTLER. APRIL 14. 1864 (Series XI., Volume VII., page 50): “Until examined by me and my orders thereon are received by you, decline all further exchanges.”
PRESIDENT DAVIS TO CONFEDERATE CONGRESS, MAY 2 (page 103): “The prisoners held by us are perishing from the in evitable effects of imprisonment and homesickness produced by the hopelessness of release from confinement. The spectacle of their suffering augments our longing desire to release from similar trials our own brave men who have spent so many weary months in a cruel and useless imprisonment.”
ROBERT OULD TO MULFORD, AUGUST 10 (page 578): “You have several times proposed to exchange prisoners, officer for officer and man for man, and this proposal has heretofore been declined by us, we insisting on the delivery of the excess on either side upon parole. In view, however, of the large number held now by both sides and their suffering, I now consent to deliver the prisoners held by the Confederacy, provided you agree to deliver an equal number, with the understanding that those who have been in captivity longest will be the first delivered.”
GRANT TO BUTLER, AUGUST 18 (page 606): “On the subject of exchange, I differ with General Hitchcock. It is hard on our men held in Southern prisons not to exchange them, but it is humanity to those left in the ranks to fight our battles. Every man we hold when released on parole or otherwise becomes an active soldier against us at once either directly or indirectly. If we commence a system of exchange which liberates all prisoners taken, we will have to fight on until the whole South is exterminated. If we hold those caught, they amount to no more than dead men. At this particular time to release all Rebel prisoners would insure Sherman’s defeat and compromise our safety here.”
GRANT TO SEWARD, AUGUST 19 (page 614): “We ought not to make a single exchange nor release a prisoner on any pretext whatever until this war closes. We have got to fight until the military power of the South is exhausted; and if we release or exchange prisoners, it simply becomes a war of extermination.”
GRANT TO STANTON, AUGUST 21 (page 662): “Please inform General Foster that under no circumstances will he be authorized to make exchanges of prisoners of war. Exchanges simply reinforce the enemy at once, whilst we do not get the benefit of those received for two or three months and lose the majority entirely.”
D. C. ANDERSON OF OHIO, TO PRESIDENT LINCOLN, SEPTEMBER 4 (page 768): “I find everywhere the most intense feeling of dissatisfaction at the policy of the administration relative to the suffering of our prisoners at Andersonville. The people here were and are your warmest friends and labored earnestly to fill your call for volunteers, very many urging their own release of the gallant men who have so often confronted death in the defense of our sacred cause.”
LEE TO GRANT, OCTOBER 1 (page 906): “With a view to alleviate the suffering of our soldiers, I have the honor to propose an exchange of prisoners belonging to the armies operating in Virginia.”
GRANT TO LEE, OCTOBER 2 (page 909): “I could not accept your proposition further than to exchange those prisoners captured within the last three days and who have not yet been delivered to the commissary general of prisoners.”
STANTON TO GRANT, OCTOBER 15 (page 988): “It is the desire of the President that no effort consistent with the national safety be spared to affect the release of all in captivity to the Rebels, and the subject is committed to you with full authority to act in the premises as you shall deem right and proper.”
GRANT’S TESTIMONY BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR, 1865: “I did not deem it advisable or just to the men who had to fight battles to reinforce the enemy with thirty or forty thousand disciplined troops. The suffering said to exist among our prisoners South was a powerful argument against the course pursued, and I so felt it.”










































































