Rick Rogers

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Ulysses S. Grant and James Longstreet had one of the more remarkable friendships in American history, made all the more striking because they ended up on opposite sides of the Civil War.

They met as cadets at West Point in the early 1840s and became close friends despite their different backgrounds. Longstreet, a Georgian, was outgoing and physically imposing, while Grant was quieter and smaller, but they bonded over a shared dislike of military pretension and a love of horses. After graduation they served together in the Mexican-American War, where they fought alongside each other and deepened the friendship.

The personal connection became family. Longstreet was related to Grant’s future wife, Julia Dent, through his cousin. Longstreet attended Grant and Julia’s wedding in 1848 and, by some accounts, served as a groomsman or best man. The two men remained close until the Civil War divided them, with Longstreet becoming one of Robert E. Lee’s most trusted corps commanders and Grant rising to command all Union armies.

One of the most telling moments came in 1864, when Grant was given command of all Union armies and Confederate officers around Lee’s headquarters were dismissing him as a drunkard and a butcher who had only succeeded against second-rate Western generals. Longstreet, who knew Grant better than any man in gray, reportedly silenced the room by warning his fellow officers something to the effect of, “that man will fight us every day and every hour till the end of the war.” He told them not to underestimate Grant’s tenacity, that he was a soldier of singular determination, and that the Confederacy now faced an opponent unlike any it had met before. History proved him exactly right, the Overland Campaign that followed was the bloodiest and most relentless pressure Lee’s army ever endured.

What’s most touching is what happened after the war. When the two met again at Appomattox in 1865, Grant reportedly greeted Longstreet warmly, offered him a cigar, and invited him to play a game of cards “as if nothing had ever happened.” Grant later used his political influence to help Longstreet receive a pardon and restoration of citizenship. Longstreet then committed what many former Confederates considered an unforgivable betrayal: he became a Republican, supported Grant’s presidential campaigns, and accepted federal appointments from him, including minister to the Ottoman Empire. This earned Longstreet decades of vilification from Lost Cause writers, but he never wavered in his loyalty to his old friend.

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🔥NEW: Clarence Thomas — full remarks on progressivism, its foundations, history, and impact from his appearance at University of Texas at Austin:

“Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, and Mao were all intertwined with the rise of progressivism, and all were opposed to the natural rights on which our Declaration is based.”

"Many progressives expressed admiration for each of them shortly before their governments killed tens of millions of people."

"It comes as no surprise that the progressives embraced eugenics... It was only a small step for Wilson to resegregate the federal workforce."

"It was only another step for the government to launch sterilization programs on those deemed by the experts of the day to be unfit to reproduce."

“European thinkers have long criticized America for remaining trapped in a Lockean world, with its weakened, decentralized government and strong individual rights. They say our 18th-century Declaration has prevented us from progressing to higher forms of government."

"But we were fortunate not to trade our Lockean bonds for the supposedly enlightened world of Hegel, Marx, and their followers. Fascism, which after all was national socialism, triggered wars in Europe and Asia that killed tens of millions."

"The socialism of the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China proceeded to kill tens of millions more of their own people. This is what happens when natural rights give way to higher-good notions of history or progress, or, as Thomas Sowell has written, the visions of the anointed."

"None of this, of course, was an improvement on the principles of the Declaration. Tocqueville's Democracy in America is largely about how America owed its superiority over Europe to its conscious decision to reject central planning and administrative rule, root and branch."

"Progressivism, in other words, is retrogressive.”

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