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Inspired by this article, your challenge is to swap the historical reputations of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee.Lee, despite fighting for the Confederacy and by all accounts being a supporter of the Confederacy's cause, remains revered across the US, while Grant, despite being the General who ended the Civil War and lead a mixed-but-not-altogether-failed Presidency, is mostly remembered as either a drunk or a butcher. Obviously, I don't mean that I want Grant to be remembered as the Union's "Marble Man", or Lee as a drunk fuck up, but rather their standing in the public's eyes.

Obviously, not having the Grant Presidency go the way it did would help, but since I don't know much about that period of Grant's life I'm not sure what POD could salvage his time in the White House. For Lee, it's probably just a matter of butterflying away the Lost Cause, and maybe throwing in some Southern resentment against him surrendering at Appomattox.
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