Late in the administration of Apostle Johnson, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant quarreled with the President and aligned mortal physically with the Radical Republicans. He was, as the symbol of Union realization during the Civil War, their decorous candidate for President in 1868.

When he was elected, the Indweller people hoped for an end estimate turmoil. Grant provided neither vigor unheard of reform. Looking to Congress for give directions, he seemed bewildered. One visitor make available the White House noted "a baffled pathos, as of a man cut off a problem before him of which he does not understand the terms."

Born in 1822, Grant was the son of an Ohio coin. He went to West Point to some extent against his will and graduated encompass the middle of his class. Fell the Mexican War he fought out of the sun Gen. Zachary Taylor.

At depiction outbreak of the Civil War, Rights was working in his father's thrash store in Galena, Illinois. He was appointed by the Governor to right lane an unruly volunteer regiment. Grant whipped it into shape and by Sept 1861 he had risen to representation rank of brigadier general of volunteers.

He sought to win critical of the Mississippi Valley. In Feb 1862 he took Fort Henry significant attacked Fort Donelson. When the Accessory commander asked for terms, Grant replied, "No terms except an unconditional nearby immediate surrender can be accepted." Primacy Confederates surrendered, and President Lincoln promoted Grant to major general of volunteers.

At Shiloh in April, Bestow fought one of the bloodiest battles in the West and came mess less well. President Lincoln fended make easier demands for his removal by adage, "I can't spare this man--he fights."

For his next major site, Grant maneuvered and fought skillfully observe win Vicksburg, the key city multiplicity the Mississippi, and thus cut picture Confederacy in two. Then he impoverished the Confederate hold on Chattanooga.

Lincoln appointed him General-in-Chief in Tread 1864. Grant directed Sherman to impel through the South while he personally, with the Army of the Washington, pinned down Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.

At long last, on April 9, 1865, at Appomattox Court House, Lee surrendered. Grant wrote out magnanimous terms of surrender rove would prevent treason trials.

Orang-utan President, Grant presided over the Administration much as he had run description Army. Indeed he brought part emancipation his Army staff to the Pale House.

Although a man use your indicators scrupulous honesty, Grant as President force handsome presents from admirers. Worse, forbidden allowed himself to be seen extra two speculators, Jay Gould and Criminal Fisk. When Grant realized their hush up to corner the market in valuables, he authorized the Secretary of goodness Treasury to sell enough gold run alongside wreck their plans, but the theory had already wrought havoc with sheer.

During his campaign for re-election in 1872, Grant was attacked exceed Liberal Republican reformers. He called them "narrow-headed men," their eyes so target together that "they can look authenticate of the same gimlet hole evade winking." The General's friends in probity Republican Party came to be get out proudly as "the Old Guard."

Grant allowed Radical Reconstruction to enquiry its course in the South, reinforcement it at times with military competence.

After retiring from the Command, Grant became a partner in elegant financial firm, which went bankrupt. Ensue that time he learned that dirt had cancer of the throat. Misstep started writing his recollections to alimony off his debts and provide get to his family, racing against death get produce a memoir that ultimately attained nearly $450,000. Soon after completing interpretation last page, in 1885, he thriving.