Johnson attempted to hold back Schurz’s more critical report, agreeing to release it only if it was paired with Grant’s report. Ironically, this strategy backfired: Grant ended up reading Schurz’s forty-six-page report with great care and recognized that Schurz had done what he had not—focused attention on violence against both blacks and white Unionists. He confessed later to Schurz, “I traveled as the general-in-chief and people who came to see me tried to appear to the best advantage. But I have since come to the conclusion that you were right and I was wrong.
