The War of Northern Aggression

This article about the remembrance and reputations of Lee and Grant is very interesting. Essentially the author notes how Grant is remembered as a bad president, drunk (not really fair, I think John Keegan established he was simply prone to alcoholic benders) and a controversial general, while Lee occupies a mystic place in American and Southern memory.

I can vouch for that.

My father's mother was born in Naches Mississippi and raised in Waterproof Louisiana. The image that comes to mind when one read's 'Waterproof' is exactly right, only more so.

That woman was gentile and southern to the core and the only thing she learned about 'The War Between the States' was that Lee was a gentleman and Grant was a drunken Bull.