Actually he promised to pay the back wages and just didn't pay them, same as every other military commander in history
This is just an 18th century PR press release
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He's running.
Wait til you find out what his "wooden" teeth were really made from.
Man if he didn't kill himself with catching a cold and getting drained of his aqua vitae to death I bet he would've gotten rabbies-like symptoms from sucking on all that lead for years. That would've been a funnier way for the first president to go out. Getting put down like old yeller after gnawing off Thomas Jefferson's face or some shit.
Omfg. What the entire fuck? Idk, I probably believed something that ridiculous when I was less capital-pilled and history-mogging, but it seems so bizarre from here.
"Almost blind in the service of my country..." he drawled, utterly tone deaf to the fact that he was addressing people who had been crippled in the service of their country.
Fhe West Winge
I like the generals who DIDN'T own slaves (okay, U.S. Grant owned a slave, but he was his father-in-laws [ew] and he freed the guy and a few million more later)
Grant was a careless fool who would go on to facilitate the Gilded Age. You don't need to give him a slave pass, and in fact you should not.
he was the Carter of his day, but at least he did something good. The Republicans just tapped him for president cuz he was a war hero, the Gilded Age wasnt caused by Grant. I'd rather credit him for preventing chattel slavery (instead of wage slavery) being the basis for the Gilded Age
I'm not saying he caused the Gilded Age, but rather like the absurd rate of Union deaths in the Civil War, his negligence allowed things to be much worse than they could have otherwise been, even if it would have happened without him.
counter factuals and what not, Grant also reoccupied the South after the Johnson administration just handed it to the literal KKK. He's a land of contrasts 
Fair enough
I went to a talk about George Washington a few years ago, and they mentioned this. I was hung up on it the whole time.
"He refused to pay his soldiers, who rosked their lives for his national project... he exploited people much less fortunate than him... and this is seen as a good thing?"
"No, you don't understand, this was an example of clever decisions in complex and difficult situations...."
I then compared him to Donald Trump, owning a large amount of real estate inherited from family, treating black people poorly, and refusing to pay Polish immigrant workers. They didn't like that.