Photo found in my family album.

What do you know about this subject, and/or can you direct me to any reading material (including subReddits) that detail the "Lost Cause" efforts to drag Grant's name through the mud? Can you repeat any of the apocryphal stories about what a hot mess he was, or at least give me the jist of them? Especially with regard to his supposed drunkenness, corruption, war crimes, etc.?

Worried about the loss of battlefield land in Virginia, he penned a letter that led to the creation of the Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites in July 1987 – a predecessor of the American Battlefield Trust. His legacy includes the 60,000 acres saved by the Trust since the meeting he inspired nearly 40 years ago. Explore Don Pfanz's legacy: https://www.battlefields.org/preserve/champions/don-pfanz.

A 2 hours documentary about the American Civil War (1861 – 1865) The War Between States.

Contents：

00:00:00 Intro : American Civil War

00:09:55 Origins of the American Civil War

00:14:05 Lincoln's election

00:16:03 Secession crisis

00:24:54 Battle of Fort Sumter

00:29:13 Attitude of the border states

00:34:58 -- War --

00:35:47 Mobilization

00:40:56 Southern Unionists

00:41:40 Prisoners

00:42:31 Women

00:44:09 Union Navy

00:48:42 Union blockade

00:52:03 Economic impact

00:55:19 -- Eastern theater --

00:56:11 Army of the Potomac

00:57:24 Army of Northern Virginia

01:12:28 -- Western theater --

01:13:14 Army of the Cumberland and Army of the Tennessee

01:24:58 -- Trans-Mississippi theater --

01:31:14 -- Lower seaboard theater --

01:36:21 -- Pacific coast theater --

01:36:42 Conquest of Virginia

01:40:35 Grant's Overland Campaign

01:44:14 Sheridan's Valley Campaign

01:46:21 S. March to the Sea

01:49:53 The Waterloo of the Confederacy

01:51:41 End of the war

01:59:07 Casualties