Grant: The Legacy of Ulysses S. Grant | History

Diagnosed with terminal cancer and on the brink on financial ruin, Grant races to finish his memoirs to provide for his family, in this scene from "Freedom's Champion." #Grant
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[barbarianremover]

Grant was a great general.
Grant was a decent president.
But most importantly he was a good man with a good heart.

[blakes]

The history channel actually doing something about history....

[leoh]

I know this might be an unpopular opinion but please make more stuff like this and less ancient aliens.

[charleswinkowski]

Grant is always over shadowed by Lincoln and rightfully so. But Grant finished Lincoln’s fight and he deserved better then how he has been portrayed. He is an excellent general, leader and president.

[xtremeranger]

The final letter to Grant from the former Confederate soldier was so beautiful and eloquent. Grant was such a humble and magnanimous man.

[Hawktotalwar]

Grant was recently awarded the rank 6 Star General, he stands now along George Washington and John J. Pershing. A long overdue promotion. For a man who saved/kept the nation together and was also respectful to the South. Also tried to continue Lincoln's legacy after his passing.

[Autobotmatt]

I love the opening to his biography. “My family is American and has been for generations”

[AbrahamLincoln]

He seems like a great man. People overlook him so often.

[veanwhitcher]

It's time for President Grant to be reintroduced to a nation that needs to know him again.

[carolbell]

He was a quiet man with plenty of common sense. Grant was very good with horses and math. He dearly loved his wife and children. All this and a great general. It is mind boggling. Here was a true man in every sense.

[johnlansing]

This man came from nowhere to become the savior of a nation. He fought with no mercy but also with no hate for the opposition for he never thought of the confederate soldier as other than a American who had lost their sense of direction. Greatness when we needed it.

[foolslayer]

Ulysses S. Grant is one of the greatest heroes in American history. He was indomitable, fair, humble, just, and gritty. He is like the warrior-kings of myth made in the form of a modern man.

[mcghee]

Grant was living proof of picking yourself off the floor after you have fallen.

[mitchellhawkes]

This story of Grant's crushing late-life poverty grips the heart. That Samuel Clemens -- aka Mark Twain -- came to Grant's aid is also a great American story. Twain, a boy from Missouri, wrote stories about how he had prepared his young self to fight -- right or wrong -- for the Confederacy. Not very well did Twain prepare, but he gave it a very earnest try. Later, Twain saw the justice of the Union cause. And he came to the Old President's side when Grant was getting help from almost no one. Twain and Grant -- two American treasures. And here they meet.

[localkiwi]

What a Great General. You Americans should be proud that your country produced such a great Geaneral. I read once, Dwight Eisenhower believed he was your greatest. What a accolade from another great general.

[ddesign]

After viewing this series and my being a 56 yr old man of Black America, Chinese American and Irish American mixed blood and living here in NYC, I drove over to Grants Tomb to lay flowers and a card. To my surprise, their was a wreath of flowers and a Black Lives Matter sign there. I was not the only one moved by what this series brought to light. And his heart is surely needed as American cities burn from the injustices that remain from some of our white brothers and sisters.
We own this man a debt of gratitude. His humanity for that time period was surely amazing! 🇺🇸✊🏾✊✊🏻

[liviadix]

I wasn't born in this Country, but as a naturalized American citizen, he represented everything I love of this Country. The more I learn about this man, the more I appreciate him.
Now as then, we are divided, and we are in need men of his courage,
integrity, wisdom, and perseverance to guide us.

[ariannashrum]

He will forever be one of my favorite people in history. A real, true hero. Wow. I wish there were more men like him in today’s time

[ericofthewest]

Grant deserves his own movie. True American Hero through and through!!!

[BHuang]

He died fighting to the end. What a hero!