Ulysses S. Grant

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We are not told much about his favorite music, but undoubtedly he would have liked the popular songs of his day. Some sources have reported that he did not like military or marching music.

Being caught napping at Shiloh and nearly having his army pushed into the river on the first day.

Refusing to go back and cross the Mississippi at Memphis because he thought it would look like a retreat.

Judging that the Battle of the Crater would fail, and only allowing the preparations to go ahead in order to keep the men from getting idle and rebellious.

He smoked cigars all of his life until he eventually got cancer and died.

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, AND John Quincy Adams.

Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th US President. He was elected for two terms. Under his presidency the following events occurred:

* The transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869;

* In 1870 the 15th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified;

* In 1872 The Amnesty Act was approved, restoring civil rights to Southerners;

* In 1873 a depression began which lasted five years; and

* In 1875 he signed the Specie Redemption Act which contracted the amount of paper currency that was in circulation.

April 9, 1865

if anyone knows what battle he surrendered at plz tell!!

Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th United States President. He was a 1943 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Ulysses S. Grant attended the United States Military Academy at West Point. After leading the Union Armies to victory in the Civil War, Grant went on to become the 18th President of the United States.

Grant was not directly involved in any the scandals that racked his administration.

However, he was officially in charge and so he had the ultimate responsibility for everything that went on. One can argue that he should have been more careful in his supervision , seen what was going on and prevented it or stopped it quickly.

Grant presidency was rocked by series of corruption scandals

Ulysses is the Greek name for the king and hero Odysseus.

He kept attacking and hsi soldiers where weak hungry and tired

The S did not really stand for anything - it was a mistake. President Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant. Congressman Thomas Hamer mistakenly nominated him to the U. S. Military Academy as "Ulysses S. Grant of Ohio" , possibly recalling that his mother's maiden name was Simpson. Therefore Grant was enrolled at West Point under that name. He made attempts to get the error corrected, but after no success ,he became resigned to it and accepted the name change. Ulysses S. Grant was therefore the name that was recorded in the army records once he graduated and became an officer. His nickname became "Sam" among army colleagues at the academy, since they figured the initials "U.S." must stand for "Uncle Sam".

In a letter to his wife dated March 31, 1853 he clearly states that the S does not mean anything.

(The story that he changed his name because he did not like the initials HUG cannot be verified and seems to be false. )

Grant was elected President two times. He remained popular in spite of the scandals in his cabinet. People saw him as an honest man and the people in the North remained grateful for his part in ending the Civil War. When he died, several places wanted to be the site of his tomb. He was given an elaborate funeral and his tomb is magnificent.

Yes. Grant, the 17th US President, appears on the modern US $50 bill.

Grant was not a good general. Tecumseh Sherman and even George Thomas were better Union generals.

But as Abraham Lincoln said, Grant fought whereas McClellan mostly sat.

So, Grant's biggest strength was that he was a fighter and that he was able to think clearly during the battle.

Grant's biggest weakness was complete lack of reconnaissance. He was taken by surprise at Shiloh, but more inexplicably he was taken by surprise at the Battle of the Wilderness. By 1864, the Union had cavalry that was the match of that of the South. So, Grant should have been able to know at all times the strength and disposition of Lee's forces. Also, the battle took place in almost the same location as the Battle of Chancellorsville. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

I believe that the US Army has come to value qualities of U.S. Grant and have conscientiously created such generals as George Patton and Douglas MacArthur. There are similarities in the way MacArthur was surprised by the Red Chinese and the way Grant was surprised in the Wilderness.

Grant was only a very average General.

General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.

The surrender took place in the home of Wilmer McLean who had fled the seat of war in 1861 after the Union and Confederate Armies clashed on property he owned near Manassas Junction, Virginia. This battle was known as the First Battle of Bull Run or First Manassas.

Grant Holt (born April 12, 1981 in Carlisle) is an English player who as of March 2014, plays for Aston Villa as a striker.

Holt has spent most of his career in the lower leagues of the English system, with his early career also taking him into Italy with Sorrento, and Singapore with Sengkang Punggol.

With his longest stint for a single team being a four-year spell for Norwich City between 2009 and 2013, he moved away from the team at the end of the 2012-13 season.

Ulysses S. Grant was the general of the union so maybe northern troops.

Grant was buried on August 8,1885 after dying on July 22.

General Ulysses S Grant wanted to wear down the Confederacy's forces, and cut the Confederate army off from supplies and food that would enable them to keep fighting.

Grant knew that the Union had a superiority of numbers and supplies, while the South had no more soldiers in reserve and dwindling resources. If Grant and President Lincoln remained persistent, it was only a matter of time before the Confederacy would be placed in a position of surrender but at great cost to both sides in casualties.

Grant and the Army of the Potomac fought a series of battles against General Robert E Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia. Grant suffered losses of tens of thousands of men, but kept pushing Lee farther and farther south, also losing men every day.

One of Grant's strategies was to bring the war to the South, destroying resources and railroads and homes. Grant cut off Confederate supplies by sending forces into the Shenedoah Valley, the major food source of the Confederate armies. US General Philip Sheridan fought a series of battles against the outstanding defense of CSA General Jubal Early until Sheridan finally controlled the entire region and destroyed the South's major agricultural base.

Grant sent General William T Sherman on a similar mission farther south, beginning by capturing the major city of Atlanta. Sherman then marched across Georgia, destroying crops and railroads, all the way to the port of Savannah. Sherman then turned and marched north to approach Lee's army from the south. Lee's forces, depleted by casualties and desertions, were under intense pressure from all sides. Grant's forces began to win every encounter, US cavalry destroyed Lee's supply trains, and by April 9 of 1865 Lee surrendered his army to Grant. The surrender of the last Confederate army unit occurred in June of 1865.

Grant was a national hero when he died. He was living in New York State when he died and the city of New York successfully lobbied to have buried there. Unlike most presidents he did have any close association with any particular state since he had never held public office.

More or less. The Presidential dollar coins were supposed to replace the paper dollars, but the idea failed- most of them came back to the banks as fast as they were sent out. They would be in circulation if anybody was willing to circulate them.