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^ Historian Gregory Downs said, "After the war, Confederate apologists launched a brutally effective propaganda campaign against Grant to obscure the true history of slavery, the Civil War and the white Southern terrorist campaigns against Reconstruction."[632]

^ The toppling of Grant's statue, prompted a response from U.C. Davis history professor Gregory Downs. Noting President Grant's endorsement of the 15th Amendment and prosecution of the Klan, Downs said, "When the mob members tore down Grant’s bust, they unknowingly built upon a 150-year effort to erase and defame him."[632]

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^ McFeely 1981, p. 3.

^ Smith 2001, pp. 21–22.

^ White 2016, p. 6.

^ Hesseltine 1957, p. 4.

^ White 2016, p. 8.

^ White 2016, pp. 8–9.

