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Reply to TIL that Ulysses Grant was made commander of all Union armies at 41 and President at 46 by IllustriousAct28
Grant was a total badass. He gets maligned because of his trust in the wrong people but the dude was as legit as they came.
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Reply to comment by yousorename in TIL that Ulysses Grant was made commander of all Union armies at 41 and President at 46 by IllustriousAct28
People venerate RELee as this great military leader but Grant routinely stomped him. Even during the Mexican War, Lee's reputation was overblown.