way and honestly, the North didn't care. Now, that narrative has swung the other way. Grant wasn't a butcher, but he did understand how to move an army and he understood he had a HUGE numbers advantage over the Southern armies. Military genius? Maybe, but it's not like he didn't outnumber his opponents 2 to 1, or more.

He did get kicked out of the military the first time for drinking too much. He did have a corrupt administration as President (even if he wasn't corrupt himself) and has historically been ranked very low in Presidential rankings. This show kind of sugar coated some of that.

I like Grant. I think he's underrated as a general that was willing to actually fight and win the war. I also think history is often rewritten through the viewpoint of the generation reviewing it, especially from a moral perspective. The real way to view history and judge the people that lived during that time is to understand why they felt the way they did. Every person that says Washington wasn't great because he owned slaves, which he did, had better understand that in 100 years, people are going to view us as horrible human beings for driving cars that pollute the air. You can't just view history with your viewpoint, you have to understand their viewpoint, even if it's something as horrible as slavery.