Ron Chernow Quote
By the end of Grant’s second term, white Democrats, through the redeemer movement, had reclaimed control of every southern state, winning in peacetime much of the power lost in combat. They promulgated a view of the Civil War as a righteous cause that had nothing to do with slavery but only states’ rights—to which an incredulous James Longstreet once replied, I never heard of any other cause of the quarrel than slavery.
Ron Chernow
By the end of Grant’s second term, white Democrats, through the redeemer movement, had reclaimed control of every southern state, winning in peacetime much of the power lost in combat. They promulgated a view of the Civil War as a righteous cause that had nothing to do with slavery but only states’ rights—to which an incredulous James Longstreet once replied, I never heard of any other cause of the quarrel than slavery.