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Ulysses S. Grant; his life and character

Biography of Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), 18th president of the United States between 1869 and 1877. He had earlier risen to be the principal General for the Union forces in the Civil War. He was born along the Ohio River about 25 miles east of Cincinnati, Ohio, and was christened as Hiram Ulysses Grant by his parents, Jesse Grant and Hannah Simpson. Ulysses attended West Point, served in the U.S. Army until 1854, and married Julia Dent in 1848 in St. Louis, Missouri. He rejoined the army in 1860, and became a General, accepting the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. General Grant from the U.S. Army later, and ran for president of the United States, serving for two terms. He then toured the world, including Mexico and Cuba (where he represented railroad companies desirous of concessions), and then became a partner with Ferdinand Ward in a Wall Street investment house which initially succeeded and ultimately failed. Hamlin Garland, the author, feels that "... the estrangement which came between Ulysses Grant and his father after his [initial] resignation from the army ... accounts in large measure for his apparent failure as a civilian"--P. xxii.

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