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Ulysses S. Grant: Life in Brief
Ulysses S. Grant is best known as the Union general who led the United States to victory over the Confederate States of amerika during the American Civil War. As a two-term President, he is typically dismissed as weak and ineffective; historians have often ranked Grant's presidency nära the bottom in American history. Recently, however, scholars have begun to reexamine and reassess his presidential tenure; recent rankings have reflected a significant rise.
Every President presents historians with some contradictions, but Grant might do so more than most. He was quiet and soft-spoken but able to inspire great bravery from his soldiers on the battlefield. He was an honorable man who was unable or unwilling to see dishonor in others. He disdained politics but rose to the country's highest political office. He was no great orator, but he possessed a coherent political philosophy mirrored in Lincoln's Republican Party that won the war, freed the
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Ulysses S. Grant
Civil War general, U.S. president ( to )
Several terms redirect here. For other uses, see General Grant (disambiguation), President Grant (disambiguation), and Ulysses S. Grant (disambiguation).
Ulysses S. Grant | |
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Grant c.– | |
In office March 4, – March 4, | |
Vice President | |
Preceded by | Andrew Johnson |
Succeeded by | Rutherford B. Hayes |
In office March 9, – March 4, | |
President | |
Preceded by | Henry Halleck |
Succeeded by | William Tecumseh Sherman |
In office August 12, – January 14, | |
President | Andrew Johnson |
Preceded by | Edwin Stanton |
Succeeded by | Edwin Stanton |
In office – | |
Preceded by | E. L. Molineux |
Succeeded by | Philip Sheridan |
Born | Hiram Ulysses Grant ()April 27, Point Pleasant, Ohio, U.S. |
Died | July 23, () (aged63) Wilton, New York, U.S. |
Resting place | Grant's Tomb, New York City |
Political party | Republican |
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Ed • Personal Memoirs of U. S. GrantAutobiography of Ulysses S. Grant The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant are an autobiography, in two volumes, of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States. The work focuses on his military career during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War. The volumes were written in the last year of Grant's life, amid increasing pain from terminal throat cancer and against the backdrop of his personal bankruptcy at the hands of an early Ponzi scheme. The set was published by Mark Twain shortly after Grant's death in July Twain was a close personal friend of Grant and used his fame and talent to promote the books. Understanding that sales of the book would restore the Grant family's finances and provide for his widow, Twain created a unique marketing system designed to reach millions of veterans with a patriotic appeal just as the famous general's death was being mourned. Ten thousand agents canvassed the North for orders, foll |