What was Ulysses S. Grant's opinion of the Mexican American war (1846 - 1848)?
A. He simply followed orders and published no opinion.
B. He believed it to be just.
C. For personal reasons he was very gung-ho towards killing the enemy.
D. He opposed the war.
Ulysses S. Grant was a remarkably close observer of the war. In the 1880s he wrote that the war was unjust, accepting the theory that it was designed to gain land open to slavery. He wrote in his memoirs about the war against Mexico: "I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day, regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation."