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This trump defense lawyer is just going after grant in the Supreme Court immunity case

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being a fan of something with like 30 total fans on tumblr is funny bc you get like 12 notes on a post and you're like wow the gang's all here

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had another dream except this time i was j.l. chamberlain hanging out in his tent. kilrain was there. what is going on

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I'm SO glad it worked! :DDDDDDD

There’s an image in Ken Burns’s The Civil War that I cannot find and it is driving me up the wall. Only place I can find it by reverse image searching is a website that doesn’t provide citations for their images. I’m in agony.

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BEST internet rabbit hole tonight! I was searching for the Grant photo.

UGH the Chicago history and art museums are now on my list of museums to visit. My family has been avoiding it though because of the increase in violence of the past few years. Maybe they'll take me if I beg enough...

The Smithsonian has Grant's Cadet coat SAUHFSDIUFHSUI SO COOL!!! I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THAT IT STILL EXISTED!!!! dsiufbdsiufbsdf it is such a twink coat 😭😭😭

ALSO!!!! GRANT HAS A COMMEMORATIVE BOULDER FOR A TREE HE PLANTED 😭😭😭😭😭😭 IT REMINDS ME OF THE LINCOLN TREE COMMEMORATORY PLAQUE SAYING "Abraham Lincoln walked by this tree ☝️🤓." This article is actually so sweet. I love that Grant seems obsessed with planting trees during his tours as a wholesome gesture (the article says he was inspired by Japanese practices he learned while traveling awww) "Grant replied with his standard tree-planting speech" HE'S BECOME THE LORAX.

All these sources are hyperlinked by the way if case you want to read about them lol

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OFC YIPPEE YIPPE YIPEE

I FOUND AN EVEN BETTER VERSION!!! WITH ALL THE INFO!!!!

There’s an image in Ken Burns’s The Civil War that I cannot find and it is driving me up the wall. Only place I can find it by reverse image searching is a website that doesn’t provide citations for their images. I’m in agony.

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I have the Ken Burns book and it's in there!

The book cites it as being archived in the Chicago Historical Society.

I actually went back to that rare photos website and they have it there, too, but with a watermark :(

I'll see if I can find one without! :DDDDD

There’s an image in Ken Burns’s The Civil War that I cannot find and it is driving me up the wall. Only place I can find it by reverse image searching is a website that doesn’t provide citations for their images. I’m in agony.

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This is so embarrassing for me, but here it is. The playlist I talked about in a previous post. It's so silly and not meant to be taken seriously. The description also says I'm open to suggestions (as long as they're done respectfully). A lot of this was done with Grant's love for his wife in mind. Anyway.

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YAY I'm glad this was helpful! :)

What's the timestamp of the image? Or can you describe it? I'm curious now!

There’s an image in Ken Burns’s The Civil War that I cannot find and it is driving me up the wall. Only place I can find it by reverse image searching is a website that doesn’t provide citations for their images. I’m in agony.

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Oh boy my specialty

Specimen #1 (this version has been put through the ringer <\3)

Source

Specimen #2

Specimin #3

Source for 2 & 3

Specimen #4

Source

Sources for 2, 3, and 4 are kind janky I bet I could find more credible ones if you need.

Here is one with rare photos:

He actually is such a lil guy omg

There’s an image in Ken Burns’s The Civil War that I cannot find and it is driving me up the wall. Only place I can find it by reverse image searching is a website that doesn’t provide citations for their images. I’m in agony.

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i want to list some seward stories here so people can understand a little better why i like this little fucker. here’s what i call “sewardisms”:

so william henry seward was THE light of the ballroom basically. he was ur one stop to have a good conversation with a cigar and drink in hand. and imagine that while knowing he was a fiery little red head standing at 5’6 who’s slender frame was likened to a scarecrow.

his favorite color was yellow and YOU WILL KNOW it. half of his clothes were yellow. his hanker-chiefs were yellow. He loved himself some stupid yellow.

he married frances seward in 1824 and they were the cutest lovebirds ever. they had five kids and fred seward and his wife became the like Defacto secretaries of seward and his lafayette park house bc he was literally never at home with his wife.

continuing w him and frances he once got into a love triangle (square?) with frances and this older senator who saw him as a young man who could fulfill his dreams. his name was albert tracy haller and this is one of his letters to him:

SO seward replies reciprocating it stating that he was happy learning they shared “feelings which I had become half ashamed for their effeminacy to confess I possessed.” but then haller gets like more continually obsessive and angry when seward doesn’t respond as quickly (he’s just like me fr). so he ruined their relationship as haller and thurlow weed (sewards bff and main political advisor) were ALSO beginning to beef over seward. so seward ended up picking weed over the obsessive haller. BUT ITS NOT OVER!!! because while seward is off working haller gets in with frances and tries to get with her and it starts to work… until seward writes a bunch of letters crying and begging her to not leave him because he was scared she didn’t love him anymore. so they both decided to throw haller out and never speak to him again! Power couple!!!

the first night that abraham lincoln and seward met they had to share a bed together where they chatted throughout the night and then finally fell asleep. in a weird coincidence, and the final days they spent together were in seward’s bed as he whispered stories to seward who was currently in excruciating pain because of his shoulder and broken jaw. whenever seward finally fell asleep (something which he dearly needed) lincoln finally left.

i just absolutely adore the relationship between the two. they started off as aquantiances and grew into rivals during the 1860 election. whenever lincoln won seward was PISSED that such a lowly small town lawyer could win but took the secretary of state job anyways. they slowly grew into friends and then by the end of the first year lincoln was spending basically every waking moment with him. they had the same sense of humor and interests, such as theater which seward was his main guest at each performance. they were basically inseparable as he was the closest to lincoln in the cabinet and they had become bffs. they make me so happy, they didn’t care for looks and most of the time you could find them with ruffled hair and misplaced clothing. seward thought the absolute world of lincoln because of how good of a person he was. like i just can’t understate how much seward loved lincoln and saw him for all of his wisdom. i’ve mentioned this before but at this point seward was seeing lincoln more than lincoln’s own wife so she (being mary todd) was angry and jealous of seward (totally understandable) who lincoln spent his nights with instead of her. this jealousy also leached out into other members of the cabinet such as salmon p chase, edwin stanton, and gideon welles who were angry their president spent more time with seward than the actual cabinet. they thought seward had his ear most of the time and was just the acting president. ppl spread those rumors a lot my favorite insult is when george mcclellan called seward a meddling incompetent puppy. it got to the point where seward was gonna resign bc of it until lincoln stepped in and was like No you’re not leaving.

seward came up with adding thanksgiving as a holiday and lincoln was like “hell yeah”

seward got into a carriage accident and dislocated his shoulder and broke his jaw. so for a few weeks he was bed ridden. during this time was the assassination attempts of both him and lincoln. lincoln died while seward’s face was slashed the hell up but he was otherwise still kicking. no one told him that lincoln had passed but when he saw the american flag hanging half mast one morning he knew. while crying he said that if lincoln was alive he would have already come to see him or ask about him but he knew.

after this was some more big hits as his wife died the same year and so did his daughter. he was literally having the WORST year ever and i feel so bad for him.

yeah there’s definitely more but those are the big bits (which i’m probably fucking up some). he’s so campy. i love the little fucker so so much.

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STOP GIVING ME TAYLOR SWIFT ADS RAAAAAA THE ONLY TAYLOR I LISTEN TO IS GENERAL TAYLOR

(I have an Obscurify rating of 99%. I am not the intended demographic of Taylor Swift).

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watching gettysburg (directors cut) and playing a drinking game that can and will kill me

DRINK RESPONSIBLY EVERYONE!

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I just finished Manhunt! It was good.

I STG IT MADE ME SO SAD

Lol I didn't expect it to get so gay for a second I was totally caught off guard. It's like "Ok the trial. Another witness. GAY SEX!?!?!?! Ok another witness." It's funny when that happens.

I wish John Wilkes Booth actually was called "pet" but I can't find anything about it. Why does this show have to bait us and not let the funny stuff be real!!! 😭

It seems though most of these embellishments were fiction but they were pretty entertaining at least.

My reaction to Shenandoah being the closing credits

I LOVE THAT SONG SO MUCH OMG SNNDAHHSNANSNSBSNSBBS

here is my favorite cover of itttt~~~~~

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TOM AND HORSE 🥺🥺🥺

Tomposting: Day 23

IVE BEEN LAUGHING AT THIS FOR THE LAST 2 MINUTES

SOMEONE PLEASE CAPTION IT

(days till his birthday: 6)

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Grant and Longstreet after the surrender of Appomattox

They missed each other so they played brag

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samd!!!

Mr. Seward wants to speak to the dead.