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	Ulysses S. Grant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio, 25 miles (40 km) north of Cincinnati on the Ohio River, to Jesse Grant and Hannah Simpson.
		Grant was initially angry at Thomas that his orders for a demonstration were exceeded, but the assaulting wave sent the Confederates into a head-long retreat, opening the way for the Union to invade Atlanta, Georgia, and the heart of the Confederacy.
		Grant was the first general to attempt such a coordinated strategy in the war and the first to understand the concepts of total war, in which the destruction of an enemy's economic infrastructure that supplied its armies was as important as tactical victories on the battlefield.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant (4316 words)

	MSN Encarta - Ulysses S. Grant
		Ulysses Simpson Grant was the son of a frontier family.
		Grant graduated in 1843 with a barely average scholarship record, ranking 21st in a class of 39.
		Grant mustered in a volunteer Galena regiment and took it to the state capital, Springfield.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761555289/Ulysses_S_Grant.html (1182 words)

	Grant, Ulysses Simpson. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Grant failed in attempts at farming and business, and was working as a clerk in the family leather store in Galena, Ill., when the Civil War broke out.
		Grant assumed command of the district of Cairo, Ill., in Sept. and fought his first battle, an indecisive affair at Belmont, Mo., on Nov. 9.
		The party unanimously renominated Grant in 1872, and he was reelected easily over Horace Greeley, the candidate of the Liberal Republican party and the Democrats.
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	ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT, USA
		Grant was an avid horseman from a young age.
		Grant's military career continued uneventfully and without distinction until he resigned from the army in 1854 with the rank of captain.
		Grant was elected to the Presidency in 1868.
	www.multied.com /Bio/UGENS/USAGrant.html (373 words)

	Ulysses Simpson Grant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Grant's Memoirs are a valuable primary source not only for Grant's own views, but as a historical record of his times and the events in which he participated.
		Grant quite correctly views the annexation of Texas and the Mexican War as part of the necessary struggle of the slaveowners to expand their territory and retain control of the United States government, which made the Civil War unavoidable.
		Grant had a private's uniform with his rank straps sewn on the blouse; he was not expecting Lee and was in the field when informed that Lee was awaiting him.
	www.du.edu /~jcalvert/hist/usgrant.htm (1997 words)

	USA-Presidents.Info - Ulysses S. Grant
		Ulysses Simpson Grant (April 27, 1822 - July 23, 1885) was an American Civil War General and the 18th (1869 - 1877) President of the United States.
		Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant) was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio, Clermont County, Ohio (25 miles above Cincinnati on the Ohio River) to Jesse R. and Hannah Simpson Grant.
		Grant left Major General William T. Sherman in immediate charge of all forces in the west and moved his headquarters to Virginia where he turned his attention to the long frustrated Union effort to take Richmond, Virginia.
	www.usa-presidents.info /grant.htm (803 words)

	Ulysses S. Grant -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Grant was known to visit the (Click link for more info and facts about Willard Hotel) Willard Hotel to escape the stress of the (The government building that serves as the residence and office of the President of the United States) White House.
		Grant and his family were left destitute (this was before the era in which retired U.S. Presidents were given (A regular payment to a person that iis intended to allow them to subsist without working) pensions).
		Grant was terminally ill from throat cancer and fought to finish his memoirs in the hope they would provide financially for his family after his death.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/u/ul/ulysses_s._grant.htm (3123 words)

	U. S. Grant
		Grant was forced to resign from the army in 1854 because of his excessive drinking.
		Grant assumed command of the Dist. of Cairo, Ill., in September and fought his first battle, an indecisive affair, at Belmont, Mo., on Nov. 9, 1861.
		The victory of Braxton Bragg, the Confederate general, at Chickamauga, led to Grant's accession to the supreme command in the West, Oct., 1863.
	www.us-civilwar.com /grant.htm (861 words)

	News of Ulysses Grant's Death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Grant sat by the General the other members of the family kept either in the other parts of the room or on the porch, almost within whispering call.
		A Brooklyn Grant Army Post, which Gen. Grant last visited and which is to bear his name, sent a request to be allowed to act as guard of honor from this place to the place of burial.
		Grant should be buried by his side, and recently suggested the Soldiers' Home at Washington for their final resting place.
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	Ulysses Simpson Grant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885), was the eighteenth president of the United States (1869-1877).
		Grant was born on the frontier, the son of a tanner, in a two-room cabin in southwestern Ohio.
		Grant focused on the Civil War, the period of his greatest glory, yet he did not write to glorify or justify himself.
	www.scriptoriumnovum.com /c/grant.html (3347 words)

	Leaders and Battles: Grant, Ulysses Simpson
		Born in 1822, Grant was the son of an Ohio tanner.
		Grant whipped it into shape and by September 1861 he had risen to the rank of brigadier general of volunteers.
		When Grant realized their scheme to corner the market in gold, he authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to sell enough gold to wreck their plans, but the speculation had already wrought havoc with business.
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	American President
		Grant was given a job that no one else would take; he was to make a disciplined fighting unit out of a rebellious Illinois volunteer regiment that no one had been able to tame.
		Grant drilled the men nearly to death, led them in several successful attacks against Confederate guerrilla bands, and was promoted to brigadier general.
		Grant was deeply haunted by the failures of his early life, and he was loyal out of all proportion to anyone who had ever been nice to him.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/ulyssessgrant (894 words)

	Ulysses Simpson Grant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ulysses Simpson Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant on April 22, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio, where his father worked as a tanner.
		In 1863, Grant secured the surrender of Vicksburg by crossing the Mississippi from the Arkansas side and working his was back up the Mississippi side through a series of battles at Jackson, Champion Hill, and Big Black River Bridge, and laying siege to the city.
		In 1868, Grant was elected President of the United States on the Republican ticket and served two terms noted for slack administration and corruption.
	ehistory.osu.edu /uscw/features/people/bio.cfm?PID=35 (717 words)

	Ulysses Simpson Grant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Grant was born in 1822 at Point Pleasant, Ohio.
		Her son, Henry Clark Corbin, became the Chief of Staff of the Army, just as Grant had been.
		Grant, who had gone to West Point, was working for his father when the Civil War began.
	members.aol.com /rfield/grant.html (144 words)

	General Grant National Memorial (National Park Service)
		Grant's tenacity and boldness led to victories in the Battles of Vicksburg and Chattanooga and Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, scenes depicted by mosaics in the tomb.
		Grant's accomplishments include signing the act establishing the first national park, Yellowstone, on March 1, 1872.
		Ulysses S. Grant died of throat cancer on July 23, 1885 in Mount McGregor, New York, and was laid to rest in New York City on August 8th.
	www.nps.gov /gegr (235 words)

	War between the States - Hiram Ulysses Simpson Grant
		Ulysses S. Grant, as he is known in history, was born 1822 in Point Pleasant Ohio, the son of Jessie Root Grant and Hannah Simpson Grant.
		At the beginning of the Civil War in 1861, Grant volunteered his services and was appointed colonel of an Illinois regiment.
		General Grant succeeded General Halleck in the west commanding the land forces and in conjunction with the navy captured Vicksburg..
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	Ulysses Simpson Grant
		He was named Hiram Ulysses Grant at birth, but due to a congressman who appointed him to West Point, in doubt about his name, had used his middle name first and had used his mother's maiden name (Simpson) for a middle name.
		On April 7, 1865, Grant wrote to Lee: "The results of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia in this struggle." Two days later upon learning that escape would be impossible; Lee arranged to meet Grant at Appomattox.
		In 1885 Grant signed a contract with his friend Mark Twain to publish his "Memoirs." As an act of respect, Grant was placed on the list of retired generals.
	www.gamepuppet.com /presidents/ulysses-grant.htm (361 words)

	Ulysses S. Grant Civil War General American President
		In the spring of 1863 General Ulysses S. Grant was given the task of capturing the town, thereby effectively cutting the Confederacy in half.
		Ulysses S. Grant wrote his Personal Memoirs as he was dying of throat cancer in order to secure his family's financial future.
		Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs and Selected Letters is published on acid free paper to insure longevity and is a wonderful addition to any academic, personal or public library collection.
	americancivilwar.com /north/grant.html (1367 words)

	Ulysses Simpson Grant Biography
		The latter was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Ohio but through confusion at West Point he became Ulysses Simpson Grant.
		During Andrew Johnson's fight with the Radical Republicans in Congress Grant was in an awkward position.
		Denied renomination in 1880, he was involved in a number of unsuccessful ventures, the worst of which-in the brokerage firm of Grant and Ward-wiped him out.
	www.civilwarhome.com /grantbio.htm (1088 words)

	Bashful man who saved the Union - The Washington Times: Books - November 14, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		At 17, Grant was "already a writer of confident, limber English prose." He was recognized as the best horseman among the cadets.
		But even while Grant was winning the presidency, the Democrats were increasing their representation in the House.
		Grant's cabinet, appraised as a whole, "proved to be an able one, somewhat above average...from most cabinets...between Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt." When Jay Gould's associates tried to corner the gold market, Grant's Secretary of the Treasury urged the President to sell gold.
	www.washtimes.com /books/20041113-102457-2205r.htm (1035 words)

	ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ulysses S. Grant graduated from the United States Military Academy, West Point, Class of 1843.
		The citizens of Galena formed the Jo Davies Guards (for Jo Davies County), and asked Grant to be their drill instructor.
		Ulysses S. Grant was elected President of the United States, and became Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces in 1869.
	www.il.ngb.army.mil /History/famous/grant.htm (185 words)

	Facts about Ulysses Simpson Grant
		Ulysses Grant was elected to two terms 1868, 1872
		Ulysses Simpson Grant has appears on the $50 bill.
		Granting reprieves and pardons to anyone convicted of breaking a federal law — except in a case of impeachment.
	www.facts-about.org.uk /american-president-ulysses-grant.htm (544 words)

	The FReeper Foxhole Profiles General Ulysses Simpson Grant - Sep. 27th, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Grant's new victory made him the man of the hour, and he was brought to Washington to receive the personal thanks of the President, a gold medal voted by CONGRESS, and the newly created rank of lieutenant general commanding all the armies of the United States.
		Grant was not a politician, and he entered the presidency with no real comprehension of the powers and duties of his office.
		Grant himself was not involved in the corruption, but when his close advisers proved faithless, the popular conviction grew that he was a failure as president.
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	Young Students Learning Library: GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		After the Civil War, General Ulysses Grant, who had led the Union armies to victory, was probably the most popular man in the Northern states.
		Grant had been a shy boy when he was growing up in southwestern Ohio.
		Grant resigned from the Army in 1854 and...
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	Ulysses S. Grant Collection at Bartleby.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Laws are to govern all alike—those opposed as well as those who favor them.
		He was originally named Hiram Ulysses Grant.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
		Among the greatest of military memoirs, Grant wrote to the last month of life to restore his family fortunes.
	www.bartleby.com /people/Grant-Ul.html (110 words)

	Ulysses S. Grant Home Page
		Grant was an outstanding military figure and the savior of the Union during the Civil War, as well as the 18th President of the United States from 1869-77.
		We invite you to explore Ulysses S. Grant, a man whose abilities are still misunderstood and underrated.
		The information here will start you on an odyssey in discovering Grant as a General, as a human being and as a great American.
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