On October 17, 1871, Pres. Grant declared martial law and suspended the writ of habeas corpus in SC

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7. For actions like this, and many others, I regard President Grant as the 2nd most important...

...President of the 19th century, only after Lincoln.

Historians have maligned his Presidency, interestingly goaded into doing so by "Lost Cause" Southern White Supremacists.

Interestingly, the Grandson and Great Grandson of two Presidents, John Adams, and J. Q. Adams, both abolitionists, helped in validating the "Lost Cause," mythology, thus disgracing his family history This would be Charles Francis Adams Jr. (not to be confused with Charles Francis Adams Sr.).

The story is chillingly told in Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause, when General Seidule (who would go on to head the history department at West Point) described his own undergraduate education at Washington and Lee University in Virginia.

General Grant was not only the greatest General in the US Civil War, he was also a superb President. No other American could have accomplished what he accomplished in the aftermath of the US Civil War.

As President Grant stands way above the majority of his peers.