re: #101 wrenchwench

It’s difficult to judge from distant hindsight, but I think the North went too easy on the South in an attempt to unify the country.

I have now convinced myself that Johnson and Grant was too quick to set aside what needed to be done: to redivide the South along new legal boundaries, to dissolve the Confederate states, and set up new States with new constitutions and borders (thus de-linking old political connections.)

Johnson I think was the weak one.

But then again Grant saw much death and destruction, so he was probably predisposed to get over as quickly as possible whatever needed to be done.