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Let Us Have Peace: Grant’s Fight for Racial Freedom
July 1, 2020
by Craig von Buseck Carved into the front of the General Grant National Memorial in New York City, known by most as “Grant’s Tomb,” are the words that were the theme for his run for the presidency: Let Us Have Peace. Grant rose to become General-in-Chief of the Union Army amidst a Civil War fought over the same issue that we still struggle with today: race. Some will tell you the war was abo…
