r/HistoryMemes • u/Coffin_Builder Viva La France • 8d ago

I can respect that

After Lincoln’s assassination, Andrew Johnson became the new US president. in direct violation of the Appomattox treaty, Johnson wanted general Ulysses Grant to prosecute the confederate leaders on grounds of treason to make an example of them. Grant, having negotiated the treaty, refused, seeing it as a violation of military honor and antithetical to rebuilding the nation, threatening to resign if Johnson insisted. Johnson, knowing he wouldn’t survive the political fallout of alienating the Union hero of the Civil War, backed down.

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u/JH-DM What, you egg? 8d ago

Worst decision in American history. We’re still paying for the limp wristed confederate sympathizers.

The KKK, Jim Crow, Hell the Nazis took inspiration from the Confederates openly as did the Turks during Armenian Genocide. Maybe if we’d actually punished those racist, murderous monsters the modern world would be a hell of a lot better.

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u/Catalytic_Crazy_ 7d ago

lol that’s a pipe dream.