you had some important insights Colette. Grant was swindled a year before he died and had to write his memoirs to be able to leave his wife some money. This was before the era of presidential pensions. After he passed in 1885 his book sold 350,000 copies in the first year and his wife got royalties from Mark Twain's publishing firm of nearly $11 million in today's currency. A remarkable story of a man who was perhaps the most famous in the world in 1885.

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And all those who attended this funeral today are also dead.

The southern soldiers should've been made into examples. And we wouldn't have what we have going on in the south again today.

AGREED

Robert e lee owned other human beings. Also he had a few successes but did not have any over all strategy like grant. Lee was able to win some battles but not a.whole war

After the visited USA and meet President Grant the Emperor Brazil the imigration confederates for Brazil The Brazil is the South who win war the legend singer brazilian named queen of rock Rita Lee é a famous cerebritie here the lee is a tribute to general lee

Very good yes Ed, and two former Confederate Generals served as pall bearers.

I remember driving by Grants tomb in the late 80's. It was covered with graffiti and nobody even seemed to know it was there. The neighborhood was a bad one. "By the 1970s, the tomb was marred by vandalism and graffiti. Many places in the city, including Times Square, were in the same condition. Trash had heaped up around the monument, its exterior recesses were being used by drug users, the homeless, and criminals for hideouts. Graffiti covered the walls and pedestals, and vandals chipped away at the masonry. The NPS undertook a plan to remove the trophy cases in the reliquary rooms." Today it is restored.

Nathanael Greene was reincarnated as U.S. Grant who returned as Omar Bradley. See 7seals.blogspot.com .

@@BradWatsonMiami brilliant

And all those who attended this funeral today are also dead.

Grant Cottage was actually owned by the Drexel family who invited Grant and his family to live at their summer home for the last six weeks of his life as the general completed his memoirs.

And all those who attended this funeral today are also dead

how the heck Do You know?

As I understand, Mark Twain helped and strongly encouraged Grant to write his memiars and he completed not long before he died. Grants family were well provided for after that.

@@TheJd195555 indeed true, There are several recently written books discussing Twain, and 'his relationship. Samuel Clemens had originally joined a MO militia unit, but decided to go west...glad he did not become a casualty of the Civil War. Grant's star is rising, again, despite modern revisionist attitudes'. Thanks.

I think congress restored him to his military commission so he could receive his pension.

You are to be commended for assemblying this impressive presentation of historic photos, complete with funeral music. I did notice one error which is probably just a typo. At 7:18 you title the photo as General Sickler and staff. The correct spelling of the general's name is General Daniel Sickles. The general was responsible for a major strategic blunder at Gettysburg, however he did sacrifice his leg during the war.

+Tim Welch Hi, I have an old copy of the sheet music of General Grant's Funeral March. I can't read music and was wondering if this music would be the same as is on my sheet music. Great video, BTW, thanks. mb

Out standing work. Excellent peek into History. Great job.

Thank goodness he didn't disappoint them.

+mbdcia The music in this video is an orchestration of the famous funeral march from Frederic Chopin's Piano Sonata Op. 32, No. 2.

Trust the People

Good eye Holly. The Balmoral Hotel next to the Cottage was one of the first to have a direct current generator and provided the electric lights for the General in 1885.

No one in the South loved him maybe the blks

Maybe because Grant kicked confederate ass everywhere he fought! 😉

...and ignorant of history.

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Tim Welch I believe I read somewhere he went on a bender during the Siege of Petersburg as you said, do to boredom. He never drank or was seen drunk in front of his wife. There was a time when other generals and Lincoln advisers warned Lincoln of Grants heavy drinking habits and it was said Lincoln's reply was, great find out what he drinks and send him barrel of it.

The bender (if it happened) was during the attempts to besiege Vicksburg.

Of all the generals on the Union side during the war, Grant earned the right to go on a bender. A great man whatever his drinking habits.

My heart beats for Dixie, and general Longstreet. Hurrah for Dixie

He drank a lot during the siege of Vicksburg because he was bored.

One of the military bands played it alternating with a muffled drum cadence during JFK's funeral procession in 1963. You can hear it prominently on the TV coverage of the funeral. The haunting sound of It with the muffled drum cadence they played that day has always stood out in my mind. JFK's funeral was a traditional American military funeral much like Grant's and Lincoln's. See the 18:30 mark for an example - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rtFzZdyCur7Demw.html

Yes, the Funeral March by Chopin

Love it. It’s absolutely a most beautiful score.

Same here. My great, great grandfather served in the 12th regiment Pennsylvania cavalry 113 volunteers. After the war he moved to Manhattan and set up a very successful hardware store on the manhattan side of the Brooklyn bridge.

Where's that, Robert ?

Muy merecido para un heroe comoGrant Salvó a la nación de unos enemigos que querían hacer lo que le daba la gana

And all those who attended this funeral today are also dead.

I was looking at the same thing.

@@bhossast HaHa!!!! GREAT MINDS!!!!

Thanks Bill. Hope you get to visit Grant Cottage this summer.

I just read Chernow's book, too. A great read, and this excellent montage is a befitting capstone for the book.

Glad you liked the Grant Funeral pix from 1885. It was from a special photo book published one month after the event and I scanned one of the few remaining copies.

In many ways Grant was the most famous man in the world in the 1880s. He had returned a few years earlier from a two-year long world tour of 30 countries where he was hailed as a war hero and the two-term president of this exciting new nation called America.

I can’t believe it either.

Yes. But not electricity.

+WILTALK Some say that the Downing "Lost Cause" school of Civil War scholarship damaged Grant's reputation in the early part of the 20th century. Downing wrote Grant off as a drunk and a butcher who was more lucky than good as a general and allowed corruption in his White House. New scholarship indicates that Grant lost fewer soldiers (as a %) than RE Lee. Disparaging Grant and lionizing Lee was seen as a way to give the South a face-saving legacy that allowed for a healing of the sections after Reconstruction. Grant's reputation was the price paid.

@@WelchCommunications yup just watched an interesting lecture in which the speaker stated the exact same thing, problem is the math doesn't add up lucky once or twice ok, but accepting the surrender of three Confedrate armies is pure skill!!!!!

@Clem Cornpone I love reading your responses in Civil War videos always entertaining when you post facts against bullshit!!!!!

@@WelchCommunications imagine that? Corruption in the White House?

A great treasure.

@Marjorie Tillman To put it in the context of the mid-19th century, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as a strategic effort to cause a slave revolt in the south. He waited till the "victory" of Antietam so that the North didn't appear to be resorting to desperate measures. The Confederates could argue that there was no uprising by southern blacks because slaves weren't as mistreated as the Abolitionists suggested. From an economic point of view the four million enslaved people in the south were equal in value to all the factories in the north and the five million white southerners viewed Emancipation as a "taking" of private property by the federal government. In the thinking of time by some whites African slaves were given Christianity, purposeful work and all their basic needs to taken care of. In this context, U.S. Grant was very enlightened in attempting to ensure black voting rights in the Reconstructed South.

@@WelchCommunications You seem very knowledgeable about Grant. If I could reccomend a book you I think you would enjoy, try out the book 'Grant' by Ron Chernow. It is definitely one of my favorite books

@@historicalmistakes8732 I read it. Thank you. Indeed, Ron Chernow visited Grant Cottage about 5 years ago when he was researching the book. I agree with you that it has become the definitive work on the general.

Thanks for the complement. There was a death mask made of the general as he lay in state. Here's a link to different versions of that mask.

www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbm=isch&sxsrf=ALeKk03QY2nt7pHG2h3Ir2HCoO9OnlH_-A%3A1604501996409&source=hp&biw=889&bih=419&ei=7MGiX9_6FYOKytMPhvixsA0&q=us+grant+death+mask&oq=us+grant+death+mask&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzIECAAQGDoECCMQJzoICAAQsQMQgwE6BQgAELEDOgIIADoGCAAQCBAeOgQIABAeUJ8LWNhFYOFNaABwAHgAgAGiAogB2hGSAQYxMi40LjOYAQCgAQGqAQtnd3Mtd2l6LWltZw&sclient=img&ved=0ahUKEwjfoKPck-nsAhUDhXIEHQZ8DNYQ4dUDCAc&uact=5

whitey g I believe that photo was of Lincoln's. TR was in his late 20's in 1885.

@@waynepolek8648 My mistake, you are absolutely right! Thanks.

Mark Twain provided a $25K advance and 70% of the profits of book sales a better deal than then magazine publisher Grant had already agreed to write for.

Thanks Colleen, Grant Cottage is a time capsule of the summer of 1885. Come and visit us in the Spring. 2022 is the General's 200th birthday.

Chopin, Funeral March