American Cincinnatus: Congress Weighs Promotion for General Grant

Grant’s efforts to do the right thing stand as a roadmap to reconciliation.

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General Ulysses S. Grant in 1865. Via Wikimedia Commons

 

The 2023 Defense Authorization Bill includes a provision to promote President Grant which — if it passes — would make him only the third American honored as a six-star General of the Armies of the United States, a fitting example of bipartisanship for the man who bound up the nation’s wounds following the Civil War.

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