Democratic nominee Horatio Seymour openly campaigned against Grant in 1868 under the slogan “This is a White Man’s Country. Let White Men Rule.”
Grant, Slavery & Civil Rights
Yes, Ulysses S. Grant owned a slave. And his wife’s family in Missouri owned dozens. Yet historian Allen Guelzo has called Grant “America’s first civil rights president.”
Gettysburg vs. Vicksburg
Grant’s victory at Vicksburg was more important militarily than Lee’s defeat at Gettysburg, but politically, Pennsylvania trumped Mississippi.
Grant vs. Lee
For years, Lee got much more respect from the ordinary American than Grant both as a military leader and as a personality. But historians have long been teaching that Grant was not only the better general but also the better man.