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    Ulysses S. Grant

    President of the United States from 1869 to 1877

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  1. 19 hours ago · Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American military officer and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As commanding general , Grant led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War in 1865 and briefly served as U.S. secretary of war .

  2. 5 days ago · This was printed in the Ulysses S. Grant Association Newsletter in April, 1973 (at the link, scroll down to that issue). Horace Porter asked Grant outright why he never uttered oaths, as so many in the military did, especially General Rawlins, Grant's chief-of-staff who could not seem to utter a sentence without profanity taking a major role in ...

    • Marie Kelsey
    • 2013
  3. 5 days ago · Detailed Account of Grant's Last Days and Funerals from Life and Personal Memories of U. S. Grant, by R. A. Fenton, 1886. Pages 158 to 268 contain a highly detailed account of Grant's last days at Mt. McGregor and the activities and ceremonies following his death.

    • Marie Kelsey
    • 2013
  4. 5 days ago · Ulysses S. Grant was a devoted family man. He and his wife Julia had four children and were fortunate not to lose any of them to an early death, as was so often in the case in those days of untreatable diseases and lack of medical care we take for granted today.

    • Marie Kelsey
    • 2013
  5. 1 day ago · In 1865, as commanding general, Ulysses S. Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. As an American hero, Grant's military expertise and leadership played a crucial role in preserving the Union and ending slavery in the United States.

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  7. 19 hours ago · Grant's Tomb, officially the General Grant National Memorial, is the final resting place of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, and of his wife Julia. It is a classical domed mausoleum in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City , New York, United States.

  8. 4 days ago · An in-depth look at President, General, and Diplomat U.S. Grant- whose career has been muddled in controversy- and whose name has been moving up rapidly on t...

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