Ulysses S. Grant

Grant sought to end the Civil War by destroying the Confederate Army.

If you got it in change, it's exactly $1.

All of the new Presidential dollars are circulating coins worth face value only. They're made of brass; hundreds of millions of each design are being put into circulation so it's extremely unlikely they'll go up in value.

You can buy uncirculated or proof versions for maybe $2 or $3 but these are for collecting purposes.

You are probably referring to the current issue US one-dollar coin. If so, it is worth one-dollar.

When Congress reinstated Edwin M. Stanton as Secretary of War, Grant handed over the keys to the War Department and continued his military command. This made him a hero to the Radical Republicans, who gave him the Republican nomination for president in 1868. He was chosen as the Republican presidential candidate at the 1868 Republican National Convention in Chicago; he faced no significant opposition. In his letter of acceptance to the party, Grant concluded with "Let us have peace," which became his campaign slogan.

general of the civil war for the north.. and the north won

Grant loved horses and had an amazing gift at communicating with them. He could drive a team of horses when he was eight . His ability to break horses and manage hard-to-control horses was a local legend. He loved to see and ride a fine horse. He also loved to travel. As soon as he left office and had a little money he traveled around the world twice. As a student he liked to paint and draw but apparently lost interest in that as an adult.

Ulysses Grant was at the end of his military career a lieutenant general and the commander of all Union armies. He had started the US Civil War as a captain of Illinois volunteers and rose quickly through the ranks.

After the war, he was elected US President for two terms. He then took a trip around the world, wrote his memoirs and died of throat cancer, age 63.

He was rich... much like in the medieval days, nobles were fat because they had money. Grant probably just ate a lot with his money. I mean pastry's, victory's feasts, and other stuff, Id get fat off of that.

Ulysses S. Grant did not ever surrender, but Robert E Lee surrendered to Grant in Appomattox Courthouse (April 9, 1865) ending the Civil War, if that's what you meant.

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When he was promoted General-in-Chief, it was clear that the North was on course to win - subject to Lincoln getting re-elected in 1864, which in turn depended on Grant's military successes.

But the price would be horrendous. Grant immediately ended prisoner-exchange, knowing that the Confederates would not be able to replace their losses. And then he settled down to a war of attrition that greatly demoralised the North.

His own important achievement in keeping Lee pinned down in a defensive campaign he couldn't win did not look impressive to the civilians whose sons were being slaughtered or kept in appalling conditions in the prison-camps.

He was just lucky that Sherman, Sheridan and Farragut made better headlines (clearing Georgia and the Shenandoah, and liberating the port of Mobile) just in the nick of time for the election.

Grant's real name was Hiram Ulysses Grant. However, when he was nominated for West Point, the Congressman who nominated him, wrote his name as Ulysses S. Grant, presumably thinking his middle name was Simpson, which was his mother's maiden name. He never corrected his name with West Point, was commissioned as Ulysses S.Grant and that became his official army name. Maybe he did not like is old initials of HUG.

Cary Grant's daughter Jennifer had a son that she named Cary.

Galena, Illinois is where Grant lived the year before he took office as President.

He was living in Galena when he left to fight in the Civil War. When the war ended he was given a post in Washington. He was given a home in Galena by the grateful citizens there and after he was nominated for President, he moved back there until he left for the White House.

He, personally? We probably don't know.

His strategies, when he became General-in-Chief, certainly killed many people on both sides. It was a policy of attrition, where he knowingly wore down the enemy until their lines were too thin to hold.

Yes, very much. He railed against the Mexican-American war, for instance, because he believed the true motive for the war was to gain territory into which the South could spread slavery. However, after the Mexican War, he quit the army and

went to work to manage his father-in-law's plantation in Missouri which relied on slave labor. Some say that experience is what made the evils of slavery more obvious to him. By the time the civil war began, he had moved North to Illinois.

He was a major hero for the North in the Civil War, and later as president worked to unravel the last vestiges of slavery in the South.

Ulysses S. Grant was one of the best generals in the civil war. His actual name was Hiram Ulysses Grant. Ulysses is his middle name, not his first name. The "S." doesn't stand for anything, he actually admitted that the "S." didn't stand for anything. The army had mis-recorded his name as Ulysses Simpson Grant. Having won the civil war for the north by beating the confederate army under Robert E Lee he was voted US President for two terms.

Ulysses S. Grant married Julia Boggs Dent in 1848

The US Civil War started April 12, 1861, and President Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, so, he was 52 when it started. The war ended on April 9, 1865, so he was 56, when it ended.

Grant was a general, and later President of the United States. Neither generals nor Presidents pass laws in the United States. Laws are passed through the Congress (on the national level) or state legislatures, and are then generally signed by the President or state governor. Grant certainly must have signed many important laws, but never passed any of his own.

he was a republican through his life

He gave the South back their guns which not only gave them their dignety but also they were able to hunt.

His appointment as General-in-Chief in March 1864, and winning the Civil War by ending the system of prisoner exchange, so that the Confederates would eventually run out of men.

Also for appointing Sheridan and Sherman as his associate Generals - both being highly effective leaders, Sherman in particular displaying creative originality at odds with his image as the hard-driving savage.