#jaggedwolf gets derailed by this

[jaggedwolf]

okay, this is prompted by the presidential obsessions poll post, but I'm going bonkers over a random contradiction

in Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs, he seems quite certain he could've become a math professor or at least an assistant to one if it wasn't for that whole military thing:

meanwhile the West Point Department of Mathematics page has this blurb

and on the third hand, everything else I search on the topic suggests that mathematics was one of the few non-equestrian topics that Grant did well in at West Point.

So like, what's the truth here? Is there a math professor at West Point with a grudge and/or a urge to dunk to make a funny joke on the hiring page, or did Grant exaggerate his own abilities and all other sources take it for granted he was being honest?? Are there still records of his grades somewhere???