Ulysses S. Grant Quotes
I feel that we are on the eve of a new era, when there is to be great harmony between the Federal and Confederate. I cannot stay to be a living witness to the correctness of this prophecy; but I feel it within me that it is to be so.
Grant, Ulysses S. The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Volume 31: January 1, 1883-July 23, 1885. Edited by John Y. Simon, Southern Illinois University Press, 2009, p. 367.
Ulysses S. Grant was an American military leader who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As president, Grant was an effective civil rights executive who created the Justice Department and worked with the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction to protect African Americans. As Commanding General, he led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War in 1865 and thereafter briefly served as Secretary of War.