“Then, indeed, I gave up all idea of saving the Union except by complete conquest.” —U.S. Grant in his Personal Memoirs, in response to The Battle of Shiloh (April 1862) This piece is the third (and final) in a series looking at astrological interpretation in the life of Gen.…
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US Civil War
This piece is the second in a series looking at the astrology of Ulysses Grant, head of The Union Army during the US Civil War and later President of the United States. The first installment looked at the major planetary configurations in Grant's chart. This piece will look deeper into…
The Lost Cause refers to a revisionist, and ultimately historically delusional, account of the US Civil War from a pro-Confederate perspective. The Lost Cause is an attempt to argue that the US Civil War was not about slavery but rather about taxation disputes, states’ rights, and a Southern “way of…