Ulysses S. Grant

I was a military man but not a very good one

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Surrounded myself with corrupt people

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Mark Twain, my friend, helped me get out of debt with his advice compiling memories

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The Butcher from Galena

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Uncle Same

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Lyss

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Usless

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Unconditional Surrender

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Uncommon Common Man

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Centennial President

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Hiram

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The Hammerer

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Little Beauty

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“The art of war is simple: find out where the enemy is and keep him moving.”

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“Let there be peace.” (inscribed about his tomb in New York City)

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“In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.”

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Colorado

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Military Career

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Scandals-Rings

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15th Amendment

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Memoirs

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Transcontinental Railroad

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Yellowstone National Park

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Black-Friday Financial Panic

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Not very tall, somewhat short and stocky

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Loved cigars-eventually died of cancer of the throat

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Lonely as he was separated from his family while on the Western front during his early army career

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Developed reputation as a drinker

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Poor business man but considered honest to himself

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Tended to favor friends and wound up surrounding himself with corruption

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Born as Hiram and later dropped it and substituted his mother’s maiden name, Simpson, for his middle initial (while he was in West Point)

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First president to change his birth name

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Moved to Galena, where his brother ran a leather goods store when he was young

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Robert E Lee and he were friends/officers in the Mexican War

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Unsuccessful in many business proposals as a young man

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Accepted Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, but refused to take Lee’s sword-gallantly

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First of three consecutive Ohio presidents

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Birthplace was a weatherboard cabin in Ohio that is now a national landmark

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Only first West Pointer to be president-the only other being Eisenhower

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Only president from a family of six children

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First president to have both parents alive to see him inaugurated, the others being Kennedy and Bush

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Loved horses, driving wagons from the age of 8

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Worked on the family farm as a young man

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Father applied for his application to West Point but he did not want to go

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Held an equestrian high-jump record that stood for 25 years, but was denied entry to dragoons (which is what the cavalry was then called) because of his grades

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Poor grades (finished 21st in a class of 39)

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Third presidnet to have been a professional solder (Harrison and Taylor were the others)

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Served under General Zachary Taylor in Texas and Mexico

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Was at Palo Alto and was the last of three presidents to have served in the Mexican War (Taylor, Pierce, and Grant)

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Distinguished himself as a commander in many of his battles

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Raised to regimental quartermaster and breveted to rank of first lieutenant

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Married Julia Boggs Dent, of St. Louis Missouri

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His marriage produced four children, three sons and a daughter

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After being elevated to rank of captain, and traveling over the Isthmus of Panama where 1/7 of the men died of cholera to the Western areas around California and Oregon, in 1854 he resigned from his army commission

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His long absence from his family drove him to excessive drinking

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After a public drunkenness scandal his commander demanded his resignation lest he stand trial

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Upon a return home he attempted to run an unsuccessful farm near St. Louis, then tried a partnership with his wife’s cousin in the real estate business

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In his first vote for president, he voted for Buchanan in 1856

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He became a clerk in his father’s hardware and leather store in Galena, Illinois

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After Lincoln’s call for volunteers he joined a muster in Illinois, declined a captaincy but was later made colonel of the 21st Illinois Infantry

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He was the second president to have served in the Civil War and the only one to have served in the Mexican War AND the Civil War

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He as made brigadier general of volunteers in May of 1861

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He had a horse shot out from under him in Belmont Missouri

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He gained national prominence when he accepted the “unconditional surrender” of Fort Donelson, Tenn. the first major Confederate Fort to fall

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It was at Fort Donelson where he gained the moniker “U.S. for Unconditional Surrender,” the only terms he would accept

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His national prominence as a military leader was futhered with the Battle of Shiloh, the siege of Vicksburg, and Chattanooga

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He was promoted to lieutenant general and was the first future president to be given the rank of “full general,” of the US Army (only other president 34), and the commander of the Army of the Potomac

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Fought Lee in the Wilderness, at Spotslyvania, where he said “I propose to fight it out on this life inf it takes all summer.”

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Costly campaign for this president

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Accepted Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, Va

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This president’s generous terms of surrender allowed Lee’s men a parole, allowing them to return home, and the officers to keep their weapons

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Rebuked his men for firing salutes to celebrate the victory by saying: “The war is over. The Rebels are again our countrymen and the best sign of rejoicing will be to abstain from all demonstrations in the field.”

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Declined to undertake a special mission to Mexico ordered by 17, suggesting it was civil rather than military

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He was appointed Secretary of War ad interim by Johnson, but later stepped down was unanimously nominated by the Republicans in claiming Johnson violated Tenure of Office Act.

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He Chicago, 1868. He defeated Democrat Horatio Seymour of Indiana in the election.

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After his terms he attended the inauguration of Hayes.

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He made a two-year round the world trip accompanied by his wife and their youngest son, Jesse.

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He spent 18 months in Europe alone where he met and was received by Queen Victoria of England, Leopold II of Belgium, Alfonso XII of Spain, Alexander II of Russia, and Pope Leo XIII.

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He was among the last "former" presidents to meet the pope. Many more did meet the pope, including while in office.

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A two-volume account of his travels, "Around the World With General Grant," became a best seller in 1879.

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He was the first former president who visited Asia. He was the first to visit Africa; the other was Teddy Roosevelt.

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After being out of office for four years, he sought the Republican nomination again in 1880.

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This made him the first president to seek a third term. Stalwart Republicans supported him, but the faction called wo "Half-Breeds" didn't. Anti-third termers got a scare when he got 304 of the 378 votes needed on the first ballot; however, Blaine and Sherman led forces opposed to a 3rd term and on the 35th ballot the nomination went to Garfield.

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One of his supporters will later shoot Garfield

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He moved to New York City.

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He made two more trips to Mexico would later shoot Garfield.

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He was badly injured by a fall on the ice in and walked with a cane the rest of his life.

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He suffered financially for investing in his son's business, Grant and Ward brokerage.

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Ward went to prison.

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In 1884 he was diagnosed with cancer at the root of his tongue.

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He suffered greatly during his last days; he had to sleep in a chair, as he would have strangled sleeping on his back.

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He became a cocaine addict consequent to pain treatment.

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He contracted with a publishing firm part owned by Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), to write his memoirs

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He completed his memoirs only four days before his death.

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The two-volume "Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant," published in 1885- 1886 sold more than 300,000 copies. Mrs. Grant received royalties of more than $440,000. This helped her for the remainder of her life to be debt free.

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Grant, with his wife, is the only US President buried in New York City, on Riverside Drive, and over his tomb lies the quote, "Let there be peace."

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His Last words: suffering from throat cancer and couldn't speak much, but he did write something poignant shortly before his death: "There was never one more willing to go than am." However, his actual last word was "water!"

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Vice Presidents: Schuyler Colfax (1st) and Henry Wilson (2nd) [Wilson’s real name was Jeremiah J Colbat but he changed it legally to Henry Wilson in 1833]

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Wilson died in office (3rd one to do His Secretary of War, and later Attorney General: Alphonso Taft, (William H. Taft's father)

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The administration held the largest majority of any in the Senate, 61-11 Republicans over Democrats.

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