Birthday of U.S. Grant, the Man Who Saved and Rebuilt the Union

PJ Media: Today, April 27, is the anniversary of the 1822 birth of one of the greatest U.S. presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. His great achievements as both general and president can remind us of the importance of never giving up, even against seemingly impossible odds.

Due to Confederate and Democrat propaganda and rewriting of history, Grant has in modern times usually not received the credit and praise he deserves. He is often falsely portrayed as a perpetual drunk, an inferior general, or a thoroughly incompetent president, none of which is true. Did he make serious mistakes, both as general and as president? Of course he did. There is not a single American hero, no matter how admirable, who did not make a few severe mistakes during his public career. But Grant was a brilliant general, a virtuous man, and arguably the greatest civil rights president in American history. He was a man who was loyal to a fault with friends and very forgiving toward his enemies, yet he also never gave up on a fight.

“The great distinguishing qualities of General Grant were truth, courage, modesty, generosity and loyalty,” said Major General Grenville M. Dodge. “He was loyal to every work and every cause in which he was engaged—to his friends, his family, his country and to his God, and it was these characteristics which bound to him with hooks of steel all those who served with him.”

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