- Joined
- Apr 4, 2017
- Location
- Denver, CO
Ulysses Grant was a witness to the Civil War. Frank Varney is an interpreter of what survived in the written records. Is the recollection of any particular witness to an event completely reliable? No.
As to Grant's memoirs, he was protecting his son who got a lot of people involved with Ferdinand Ward, and they incurred huge losses. He was protecting his wife from poverty. But he was also protecting his privacy, the intelligence work that went on during the war. He skipped over his own life long struggles with alcohol consumption. He wasn't writing a history book. He was writing something that veterans and libraries could keep on their shelves for a generation.
As to Grant's memoirs, he was protecting his son who got a lot of people involved with Ferdinand Ward, and they incurred huge losses. He was protecting his wife from poverty. But he was also protecting his privacy, the intelligence work that went on during the war. He skipped over his own life long struggles with alcohol consumption. He wasn't writing a history book. He was writing something that veterans and libraries could keep on their shelves for a generation.