On his shoulders are four stars denoting him as "General of the Army of the United States," a rank that he was the first to hold. In Grant's statue, he looks slightly to his left with a serious expression. Grant died of throat cancer on July 23, 1885, and is entombed with his wife in New York City, in a mausoleum on Manhattan overlooking the Hudson River. He spent the last months of his life writing his war memoirs, which were published posthumously by Mark Twain and ultimately earned his family $450,000. A partnership in a brokerage firm that failed left him bankrupt. After leaving office he toured the world with his family and unsuccessfully sought the presidential nomination in 1880. His political inexperience and misplaced trust in unscrupulous advisers, however, led to scandal despite his own innocence of corruption. Running as a Republican for president, he was easily elected in 1868 and re-elected in 1872. He also earned the respect of President Abraham Lincoln, and his achievements at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and Appomattox were decisive in the course and outcome of the war.Īfter the war, Grant initially supported the reconstruction of the South but grew disenchanted to the point of supporting President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment.
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Volunteering to return to service in the Union cause after the start of the Civil War, Grant held a series of increasingly responsible commands and was the strategist of victories that earned him national attention. After distinguished service in the Mexican War and at several garrison postings, he resigned his commission in 1854.
Louis, where he met his future wife, Julia Dent. The roll could not be corrected, so Grant changed his name.
Military Academy at West Point in 1839, he arrived to learn that he had been erroneously enrolled as Ulysses Simpson (his mother’s maiden name) Grant. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio. This statue depicts American general and president Ulysses S.