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Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American military officer, politician, and the 18th president of the United States, who served two terms 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. An effective civil rights executive, Grant signed a bill to create the Justice Department and worked with Radical Republicans to protect African Americans during Reconstruction. Grant was born and raised in Ohio and graduated from West Point in 1843. He served with distinction in the Mexican–American War, but resigned from the army in 1854 and returned to civilian life impoverished. In 1861, shortly after the onset of the Civil War, Grant joined the Union Army and rose to prominence after securing Union victories in the western theater. In 1863, he led the Vicksburg campaign that gave Union forces control of the Mississippi River and dealt a major strategic blow to the Confederacy. President Abraham Lincoln promoted Grant to lieutenant general after his victory at Chattanooga. For thirteen months, Grant fought Robert E. Lee during the high-casualty Overland Campaign which ended with capture of Lee's army at Appomattox, where he formally surrendered to Grant. In 1866, President Andrew Johnson promoted Grant to General of the Army. Later, Grant openly broke with Johnson over Reconstruction policies. A war hero, drawn in by his sense of duty, Grant was unanimously nominated by the Republican Party and then elected president in 1868. As president, Grant stabilized the post-war national economy, supported congressional Reconstruction and the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, and prosecuted the Ku Klux Klan. Under Grant, the Union was completely restored. He appointed African Americans and Jewish Americans to prominent federal offices. In 1871, he created the first Civil Service Commission, advancing the civil service more than any prior president. The Liberal Republicans and Democrats united behind Grant's opponent in the 1872 presidential election, but Grant was handily reelected. Grant, however, was inundated by executive scandals, during his second term. His response to the Panic of 1873 was ineffective in halting the Long Depression, which contributed to the Democrats winning the House majority in 1874. Grant's Native American policy was to assimilate Indians into Anglo-American culture. In Grant's foreign policy, the Alabama Claims against Great Britain were peacefully resolved, but the Senate rejected Grant's annexation of Santo Domingo. In the heavily disputed 1876 presidential election, Grant facilitated the approval by Congress of a peaceful compromise. Leaving office in 1877, Grant undertook a world tour, meeting prominent figures and becoming the first president to circumnavigate the world. In 1880, he was unsuccessful in obtaining the Republican nomination for a third term. In 1885, the final year of his life, facing severe financial reversals and dying of throat cancer, Grant wrote his memoirs, covering his life through the Civil War, which were posthumously published and became a major critical and financial success. At the time of his death, Grant was the most popular American and was memorialized as a symbol of national unity. Due to the Lost Cause myth spread by Confederate sympathizers around the turn of the 20th century, historical assessments and rankings of Grant and his presidency suffered considerably before they began recovering in the 21st century. Grant's critics take a negative view of his economic mismanagement and the corruption within his administration, while his admirers emphasize his policy towards Native Americans, vigorous enforcement of civil and voting rights for African Americans, and securing North and South as a single nation within the Union. Modern scholarship has better appreciated Grant's appointments of Cabinet reformers. Early life and education Grant's ancestors Matthew and Priscilla Grant arrived aboard the ship Mary and John at Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 from England. Grant's great-grandfather fought in the French and Indian War and his grandfather served in the American Revolution at Bunker Hill. His father Jesse Root Grant was a Whig Party supporter and a fervent abolitionist. His mother Hannah Simpson descended from Presbyterian immigrants from Ballygawley, County Tyrone, Ireland.Jesse and Hannah were married on June 24, 1821, and their first child, Hiram Ulysses Grant, was born on April 27, 1822. The boy's name, Ulysses, was drawn from ballots placed in a hat. To honor his father-in-law, Jesse named the boy "Hiram Ulysses", though he would always refer to him by his middle name, "Ulysses". In 1823, the family moved to Georgetown, Ohio, where five more siblings were born: Simpson, Clara, Orvil, Jennie, and Mary. At the age of five, Ulysses began his formal education, starting at a subscription school and later in two private schools. In the winter of 1836–1837, Grant was a student at Maysville Seminary, and in the autumn of 1838, he attended John Rankin's academy. In his youth, Grant developed an unusual ability to ride and manage horses. His father put his ability with horses to use by giving him work driving wagon loads of supplies and transporting people. Unlike his siblings, Grant was not forced to attend church by his Methodist parents. For the rest of his life, he prayed privately and never officially joined any denomination. To others, including his own son, Grant appeared to be an agnostic. Grant was largely apolitical before the war but wrote, "If I had ever had any political sympathies they would have been with the Whigs. I was raised in that school." Early military career and personal life West Point and first assignment Jesse Grant wrote to Representative Thomas L. Hamer requesting that he nominate Ulysses to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. Hamer nominated 17-year-old Ulysses to West Point in spring 1839. Grant was accepted on July 1. Unfamiliar with Grant, however, Hamer submitted an incorrect name. As a result, Grant was enlisted at West Point under the name "U. S. Grant". As the initials "U. S." also stood for "Uncle Sam", he became known amongst army colleagues as "Sam".Initially, Grant was indifferent to military life, but within a year he reexamined his desire to leave the academy and later wrote that "on the whole I like this place very much". He earned a reputation as the "most proficient" horseman. Seeking relief from military routine, he studied under Romantic artist Robert Walter Weir, producing nine surviving artworks. He spent more time reading books from the library than his academic texts. On Sundays, cadets were required to march to and attend services at the academy's church, a requirement that Grant disliked. Quiet by nature, he established a few intimate friends among fellow cadets, including Frederick .... Discover the Ulysses S Grant popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Ulysses S Grant books.

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  • The Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant, Part 5. synopsis, comments

    The Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant, Part 5.

    Ulysses Simpson Grant

    The country about was generally heavily timbered, but with occasional clearings. It was a much better country to conduct a defensive campaign in than an offensive one. By noon of t...

  • You, Me, and Ulysses S. Grant synopsis, comments

    You, Me, and Ulysses S. Grant

    Brad Neely

    A comically unorthodox “biography”Spanning from the birth of Ulysses S. Grant until his victory over the Confederacy, You, Me, and Ulysses S. Grant gives us an hones...

  • Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Father and His Youngest Sister, synopsis, comments

    Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Father and His Youngest Sister,

    Ulysses Simpson Grant

    This book is a collection of letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Father and His Youngest Sister. This collection of letters will constitute a suitable companion volume to Grant's Pe...

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    Ulysses S. Grant

    Colonel Red Reeder

    “Ulysses doesn’t scare worth a darn!” a soldier said of General Grant. And indeed he didn’t. Grant was always ready to attack. During the Civil War, he took fort after fort. Grant ...

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    Military History Of Ulysses S. Grant From April 1861 To April 1865 Vol. III

    General Adam Badeau

    Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack – 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities.Few men can have known Ge...

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    Ulysses S. Grant

    Brooks D. Simpson

    “The best study of Grant’s military career since Bruce Catton’s two volumes. . . . The best treatment of Union military command and strategy now in print.” The New R...

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    Ulysses S. Grant

    Josiah Bunting III & Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

    The underappreciated presidency of the military man who won the Civil War and then had to win the peace as wellAs a general, Ulysses S. Grant is routinely described in glowing term...

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    Ulysses S. Grant

    Ulysses S. Grants Autobiografie "Mein Leben für die Union", ist ein herausragendes literarisches Werk, das nicht nur die militärische Karriere des ehemaligen Präsidenten un...

  • The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant synopsis, comments

    The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

    Ulysses S. Grant & John F. Marszalek

    “Leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War.”Ron Chernow, author of Grant“Provides leadership lessons that ca...

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    Confederates in the Attic

    Tony Horwitz

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER  A Pulitzer Prizewinning war correspondent takes us on an explosive adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where Civil War reenactors, battlefi...

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    Grant

    Ron Chernow

    The #1 New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017“Eminently readable but thick with import . . . Grant hits like a Mack truc...

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    Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker and Canary Girls imagines the inner life of Julia Grant, beloved as a Civil War general’s wife and the First Lady...

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    Ulysses S. Grant

    Michael Korda

    “Michael Korda has delivered a jewel of a short life of Ulysses S. Grant, a general deadly on the battlefield and unprepossessing off it. As a biographer Korda is Grantlike himself...

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    Stony the Road

    Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

    “Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trumpera white nationalism. . . . In our current politics we recognize AfricanAmerican historythe spot under our country’s rug whe...

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    Works of Ulysses S. Grant

    Ulysses S. Grant

    6 works of Ulysses S. Grant 18th President of the United States (1869–1877) This ebook presents a collection of 6 works of Ulysses S. Grant. A dynamic table of contents allows you ...

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    The Man Who Saved the Union

    H. W. Brands

    From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and twoterm president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the W...

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    The Complete Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

    Ulysses S. Grant

    This book contains the complete memoirs of the revered United States General and President, Ulysses S. Grant, including the original illustrations and maps.  In Volume I, we l...

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    The Fateful Lightning

    Jeff Shaara

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  From Jeff Shaara comes the riveting final installment in the Civil War series that began with A Blaze of Glory and continued in A Chain of Thun...

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    The Complete Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

    Ulysses S. Grant

    "President Grant: Personal Memoirs" ranks with the greatest among the autobiographies of generals and presidents of the United States. Grant's autobiography is even mo...

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    Military History Of Ulysses S. Grant From April 1861 To April 1865 Vol. I

    General Adam Badeau

    Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack – 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities.Few men can have known Ge...

  • The Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant, Part 3. synopsis, comments

    The Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant, Part 3.

    Ulysses Simpson Grant

    Extended biography memoirs of Grant: There were no troops stationed between these two points, except a small force guarding a working party which was engaged in repairing the railr...

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    Ulysses S. Grant

    Owen Wister

    Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 – July 21, 1938) was an American writer and "father" of western fiction. Author's Note "This short book is derived from long ones; from pamphlets, speech...

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    Custer

    Larry McMurtry

    This lavishly illustrated volume reassesses and celebrates the life and legacy of the West’s most legendary figure, George Armstrong Custer, from “one of America’s great storytelle...

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    Ulysses S. Grant

    Geoffrey Perret

    Not since Bruce Catton has there been such an absorbing and exciting biography of Ulysses S. Grant. “Grant is a mystery to me,” said William Tecumseh Sherman, “and I believe h...

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    Ulysses S. Grant

    Walter Allen

    This is a biographical story of General Grant. Since the end of the civil war in the United States, whoever has occasion to name the three most distinguished representatives of our...

  • The Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant, Part 4. synopsis, comments

    The Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant, Part 4.

    Ulysses Simpson Grant

    Extended biography of Grant : As stated before, after the fall of Vicksburg I urged strongly upon the government the propriety of a movement against Mobile. General Rosecrans had ...

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    The Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant, Part 6.

    Ulysses Simpson Grant

    When news of Sherman being in possession of Savannah reached the North, distinguished statesmen and visitors began to pour in to see him.

  • Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant synopsis, comments

    Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

    Ulysses S. Grant

    The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses Simpson Grant are an American classic. In them Grant, the most able General of the Civil War, tells the story of his life and experiences, covering ...

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    Ulysses S. Grant

    Walter Allen

    Ulysses S. Grant Walter Allen, Governor Chamberlain's administration in South Carolina (18401907) This ebook presents «Ulysses S. Grant», from Walter Allen. A dynamic table of cont...

  • Military History Of Ulysses S. Grant From April 1861 To April 1865 Vol. II synopsis, comments

    Military History Of Ulysses S. Grant From April 1861 To April 1865 Vol. II

    General Adam Badeau

    Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack – 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities.Few men can have known Ge...

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    Personal Memoirs Of General Ulysses S. Grant

    Ulysses S. Grant

    Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States and the Union general who was imperative for the North's victory in the Civil War. His autobiography has long becom...

  • The Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant, Part 2. synopsis, comments

    The Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant, Part 2.

    Ulysses Simpson Grant

    The next spring, the Civil War began and anyone trained at the Military Academy was in demand to command the vast civilian armies that were being raised. Rumours of drunkenness hel...

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    Ulysses S. Grant

    Mark Lardas

    Ulysses Grant was his country's greatest general since George Washington. Like Washington, Grant's battlefield performance was the only factor standing between the United S...

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    American Ulysses

    Ronald C. White

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of A. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America’s greatest generalsand most misunderstood presidentsWinner of the William Hen...

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    Grant and Twain

    Mark Perry

    In the spring of 1884 Ulysses S. Grant heeded the advice of Mark Twain and finally agreed to write his memoirs. Little did Grant or Twain realize that this seemingly straightforwar...

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    When General Grant Expelled the Jews

    Jonathan D. Sarna

    Finalist, 2012 National Jewish Book AwardsA riveting account of General Ulysses S. Grant’s decision, in the middle of the Civil War, to order the expulsion of all Jews from the ter...

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    A Stillness at Appomattox

    Bruce Catton

    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER America's foremost Civil War historian recounts the final year of the Civil War in his final volume of the Army of the Potomac Tr...

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    Grant and Sherman

    Charles Bracelen Flood

    "We were as brothers," William Tecumseh Sherman said, describing his relationship to Ulysses S. Grant. They were incontestably two of the most important figures in the Civil War, b...

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    The Complete Personal Memoirs and Selected Letters of Ulysses S. Grant

    Ulysses S. Grant

    Completed just days before his death and hailed by Mark Twain as "the most remarkable work of its kind since the Commentaries of Julius Caesar," this is the nowlegendary au...