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… Scholarly essays, speeches, photos, and other resources on Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th US president (1869-1877), including …
Scholarly essays, speeches, photos, and other resources on Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th US president (1869-1877), including information about the Civil War, Reconstruction, and writing his memoirs
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… Joan Waugh … Ulysses S. Grant left the White House in 1877, admitting in a …
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… Ulysses Simpson Grant was born in 1822 in Point Pleasant, … of the Civil War, Grant abandoned work in his father’s Illinois leather store to command a volunteer regiment. By …
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… Joan Waugh … Ulysses S. Grant is best known as the Union general who led …
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… Joan Waugh … When Ulysses S. Grant came into office, he sought to remain above …
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… Joan Waugh … By any measure, the marriage of Ulysses and Julia was a successful one. The two met through her brother, Frederick Dent, who was Grant's roommate at West Point. Letters between them throughout …
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… Joan Waugh … After the Civil War, much of America's attention turned inwards as the country concentrated on rebuilding. Nevertheless, Grant's appointment of Hamilton Fish as secretary of state … one of greatest accomplishments of Grant's presidency. … … Ulysses S. Grant: Foreign Affairs …
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… Campaign and Election of 1868: President Abraham Lincoln's assassination at the end of the Civil War was a tragedy … all Democrats. At the beginning of the Reconstruction era, Grant, as general of the armies, attempted to work with … Republican majority into both house of Congress. … … Ulysses S. Grant: Campaigns and Elections …
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… Joan Waugh … In 1875, Grant wrote a public letter formally renouncing any interest … Rutherford B. Hayes, who became the nineteenth U.S. President. During the resolution of the disputed election, … surviving and even flourishing in many areas. Afterwards, Ulysses and Julia took a two-year journey around the world, …
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… Joan Waugh … Hiram Ulysses Grant was born on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio. He … was renowned in the area for managing unruly horses. Grant's father supported his son's ambitious nature to go beyond …
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… from boarding school at age 18, she met her older brother's West Point roommate, Ulysses S. Grant. They married in 1848, and ever after Julia ensured …
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… of War Edwin M. Stanton (1865–1868) Secretary of War Ulysses S. Grant (1867–1868) … … Andrew Johnson - Administration …
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… and taking over Union command in the West when General Ulysses S. Grant became commander in chief of the Union army. Sherman’s …
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… the department until 1861. Marshall was then appointed U.S. consul to Leeds, England, where he served until 1865. Four years later, President Ulysses S. Grant tapped Marshall to become first assistant postmaster …
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… Supreme Court. He then became the first of President Ulysses S. Grant’s five attorney generals. During his time in office, …
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… which time he resumed his law practice. In 1876, President Ulysses S. Grant nominated Taft to become his secretary of war, a post …
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… conflict as the assistant-adjutant general heading General Ulysses S. Grant’s staff . Rawlins contracted tuberculosis, however, and …
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… involved himself in political affairs. Borie served as U.S. consul to Belgium in 1843, was a member of the Republican … Party, supported the Union, and befriended a young Ulysses S. Grant. When Grant won the presidency in 1868, he nominated …