What did Ulysses S. Grant do after civil war?

Answer 1

After serving two terms, Grant retired but then sought the nomination of the Republican Party again in 1880. He did not get the nomination. In retirement, he went bankrupt. To provide for his family, he began to write his memoirs. He developed cancer but managed to survive long enough to finish his writing which earned him some literary fame and provided his family about half a million dollars. He died four days after finishing his auto-biography, 23 July 1885.

Answer 2

He was mainly engaged in writing his Personal Memories also in order to restore his military reputation, which had been harmed by the criticisms and sectarian actions carried on by some former Confederates personalities and military leaders, the prominent of whom was Jubal A. Early.

They started to attack Grant as general some 5 years after the end of Civil War, mainly concentrating their blames upon Grant's strategy and behaviour both as general and Commander in Chief during the Overland Campaign.

The more or less hidden goal was to undermine Grant's military reputation and exalt that of R.E. Lee who, in their opinion would have been the winner of that campaign hadn't Grant had an enormous superiority in terms of men and materials.

That discredit campaign was carried on for about 15 years. Grant didn't react but some of his friends and former colleagues did and the polemic spread out abroad in such a deceitful way that he felt that the measure was full to the brim.

He didn't decide to personally intervene in a polemic way but writing down his memories based upon the real facts, as far as possible supported by documentary evidence and not by theories, opinions and half-thruths as mainly did by his former opponents.

The Personal Memories were successful received by the public and undoubtedly restored his honour and his military reputation thanks also to the fine, calm and "neutral" prose that Grant made us of.

The debates about that war and its prominent protagonists hasn't ceased yet.

Answer 3

He was still popular and well-known all over the world after he left office. He took a long world tour and was feted at most of the capitals of the word.

Soon after he got home, he found t he had throat cancer and wrote his memoirs which give a very useful and clear account of his service as a general in the Civil War. He barely finished before he died.

Answer 4

Stricken with cancer 10 years after his presidency, the former president spent his final days trying to reverse financial misfortunes by writing his memoirs. He finished them just before he died at the age of 63 on July 23, 1885. Grant's memoirs were published by Mark Twain.

Answer 5

Grant remained commanding general of the US Army until he was elected president of the US in 1868, as the Republican candidate. He was reelected in 1872, and his presidential administration is still considered one of the most corrupt and incompetent ever. Grant was a far better general than he was a president. Grant did not personally profit from the corruption rampant in his administration, and in fact, was robbed himself of most of his money by swindlers and con men. He was broke, financially ruined, and a few years after leaving the White House learned he was dying of throat cancer. Mark Twain helped him, with the suggestion that he write his Memoirs, for which Twain arranged publication. Grant grimly clung to life until he could finish writing his book, determined that he should leave the income from this book to his large family. He died about nine days after he finished writing.

Answer 6

After the Civil War, he became the 18th President of the United States.

Answer 7

He toured the world for two years, lost a lot of money in an attempt to start a brokerage firm with his son and wrote his memoirs.

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