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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
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After hastily exploring my extensive CW library, I stand slightly corrected. Grant emancipated his only owned slave in his own right in 1859. His wife however enjoyed the use of four slaves the gift of her father, a slave owner. As a husband of the times, Grant would have exercised control of his wife's property and thus benefitted in Galena IL. These chattel were liberated in the 1860's as well and one was hired as a nurse. Lee and Washington had similar difficulties as they acquired slaves by marrying "up" financially. A 'gentleman' of the times' of officer and Virginia squire set could manage his wife's nuptual holdings but could not enrich himself as he would be socially ostracized by the mores of the period. So much for the code of the South. Lee's slaves actually worked for him after the war, or his sons and many of Nathan Bedford Forrest's chattel worked for him after the war which is amazing as he was a self made millionaire dealing in slaves, for which he had been held in low esteem by the Jeff Davis set. His statue in Memphis has of course been removed but his tactics are still studied...ie "charge both ways" can translate to "shoot from the front and rear tubes simultaneously"
... it works for me! Good to hear from u. Am working on VIIC with renewed vigor after your model upload.