[520], Bristow effectively cleaned house, tightened up the Treasury's investigation force, implemented civil service, and fired hundreds of corrupt appointees. Admitted to West Point, Grant graduated 21st in the class of 1843 and served with distinction in the MexicanâAmerican War. [365] Northern apathy toward blacks, the depressed economy and Grant's scandals made it politically difficult for the Grant administration to maintain support for Reconstruction. (1988). "[314] The Democrats and their Klan supporters focused mainly on ending Reconstruction, intimidating blacks and Republicans, and returning control of the South to the white Democrats and the planter class, alienating War Democrats in the North. [304] Johnson was saved from removal from office by one vote. [36] On Sundays, cadets were required to march to and attend services at the academy's church, a requirement that Grant disliked. "[117][m] On April 18, Grant chaired a second recruitment meeting, but turned down a captain's position as commander of the newly-formed militia company, hoping his previous experience would aid him to obtain a more senior military rank. [532], The St. Louis jury acquitted Babcock, but there was enough evidence revealed that Grant reluctantly dismissed him from the White House, although Babcock kept his position of Superintendent of Public Buildings in Washington. A list of what Randall perceives will be the prettiest presidential middle names after the inauguration on January 20, 2021. [167] In November, after Lincoln's preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, Grant ordered units under his command to incorporate former slaves into the Union Army, giving them clothes, shelter, and wages for their services. In 1863 he led the Vicksburg campaign, which gained control of the Mississippi River. Check out 10 little-known facts about Americaâs 18th commander in chief. During the Civil War, when Grant's Union supply depot at Holly Springs was sacked in December 1862, he incorporated the strategy of the Union Army foraging the land. William McGarrahan claimed ownership of a lucrative California quicksilver mine under the jurisdiction of the Interior Department. Born in Arkansas, USA on 1874 to Martin Clinton Tarlton "Tal" Ross and Mary Susan … At the same time, Grant's son Buck had opened a Wall Street brokerage house with Ferdinand Wardâalthough a conniving man who swindled numerous wealthy men, Ward was at the time regarded as a rising star on Wall Street. [541] Congress discovered that Secretary of Navy Robeson had been bribed by a naval contractor, but no articles of impeachment were drawn up. He later changed it to Ulysses Hiram Grant. ‘Ulysses” - no joke. He was christened “Hiram Ulysses Grant,”picked up the middle name of “Simpson” at admission to West Point - whatever happened... In 1875, President Ulysses S. Grant proposed a constitutional amendment that would require states to maintain a system of public schools free from sectarian influences and bar appropriations of tax aid to religious schools. [490], Congress hoped inflation would stimulate the economy and passed The Ferry Bill, which became known as the "Inflation Bill" in 1874. [301] With the complete backing of his cabinet, Johnson personally accused Grant of lying and "duplicity" at a stormy cabinet meeting, while a shocked and disappointed Grant felt it was Johnson who was lying. Lee immediately accepted Grant's terms and signed the surrender document. A financial firm he started with his son and a man named Ferdinand Ward went belly up after Ward fleeced its investors, and by 1884, Grant was bankrupt. Jesse's tannery business was later known as "Grant & Perkins" in 1862. [480][ay] With Wilson's loss, Grant relied on Fish's guidance more than ever. [37] Quiet by nature, Grant established a few intimate friends among fellow cadets, including Frederick Tracy Dent and James Longstreet. President Grant’s real name was Hiram Ulysses Grant. In a conspiracy that also targeted top cabinet members in one last effort to topple the Union, Lincoln was fatally shot by John Wilkes Booth at the theater and died the next morning. [313] Grant's 1862 General Order No. "The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant: a Reconsideration.". Grant struggled to secure a field command at the outbreak of the Civil War, but was later placed in charge of a regiment of Illinois volunteers and quickly promoted to the rank of brigadier general. [40] Grant planned to resign his commission after his four-year term of duty. This biography of Ulysses S. Grant for young children was excerpted from Mary Stoyell Stimpson's book, A Child's Book of American Biography (1915). [408], To avoid jeopardizing negotiations, Grant refrained from recognizing Cuban rebels who were fighting for independence from Spain, which would have been inconsistent with American objections to the British granting belligerent status to Confederates. [312] However, the Republicans adopted his words "Let us have peace" as their campaign slogan. Contrary to wide belief, Grant’s middle name was not “Simpson,” and he later confessed that his taking of the middle initial of “S.” was merely an affectation. To administer the prosecutions, Grant put in charge moral leader and reformer Anthony Comstock. [154] Although Grant had won the battle the situation was little changed, with the Union in possession of Pittsburg Landing and the Confederates once again holed up in Corinth. Grant believed the bill would destroy the credit of the nation, and he vetoed it despite their objections. His Peace Policy aimed to replace entrepreneurs serving as Native American agents with missionaries and aimed to protect Native Americans on reservations and educate them in farming. When the Democrats gained a majority in the House after the 1874 elections, the lame-duck Republican Congress did so before the Democrats took office. By the time Lincoln departed his appreciation for Grant had grown. As Commanding General, he led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War in 1865 and thereafter briefly served as Secretary of War. [609] Following the casket in the seven-mile-long (11 km) procession were President Cleveland, the two living former presidents Hayes and Arthur, all of the President's Cabinet, as well as the justices of the Supreme Court. Grant decided to reverse his given names and enroll at the academy as Ulysses Hiram (probably to avoid having the acronym HUG embroidered on his clothing); however, his congressional appointment was erroneously made in the name Ulysses S. Grant, the name he eventually accepted, maintaining that the middle initial stood for nothing. The problem was setting low standards, protecting his friends, and undercutting reformers and whistle blowers. [185][q], On December 17, 1862, Grant issued a controversial General Order No. His West Point roommate, Frederick Dent, had grown up nearby, and Grant often visited the Dent home, where the family's hospitality made him comfortable. [335] Instruction of "religious, atheistic, or pagan tenets", would be banned, while funding "for the benefit or in aid, directly or indirectly, of any religious sect or denomination", would be prohibited. [29][e], Initially, Grant was indifferent to military life, but within a year he reexamined his desire to leave the academy and later wrote that "on the whole I like this place very much". [182], Grant's war responsibilities included combating an illegal Northern cotton trade and civilian obstruction. [248] By late July, at Petersburg, Grant reluctantly approved a plan to blow up part of the enemy trenches from a tunnel filled with many tons of gunpowder. That evening, heavy rain set in. [200] Grant's army captured Jackson, the state capital. Something went wrong. Civil War Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. Corruption in the Grant Administration included price skimming, bribery, extortion, tax embezzlement, money laundering, fraud, and straw bidding. He once had to eke out a living by selling firewood on St. Louis street corners, and when the Civil War erupted, he was toiling away in obscurity at his family’s Galena, Illinois leather business. [552], For some years Grant had entertained the idea of taking a long-deserved vacation after his presidency and, after liquidating one of his investments to finance the venture, the Grants set out on a world tour that lasted approximately two and a half years. "[466] Grant lowered customs duties, gave amnesty to former Confederates, and implemented a civil service merit system, neutralizing the opposition. [138] On February 16, Foote resumed his bombardment, which signaled a general attack. There were many scandals during his administration including the “Black Friday Gold Panic” of 1869. 62-3. [217] Grant developed a good working relationship with Lincoln, who allowed Grant to devise his own strategy. The firm, Grant & Ward, was initially successful. [578] When the trades went bad, multiple loans came due, all backed up by the same collateral. [346] Grant put military pressure on Georgia to reinstate its black legislators and adopt the new amendment. [505] The rules took effect on January 1, 1872, but Department heads, and others were exempted. [319], On March 4, 1869, Grant was sworn in as the eighteenth President of the United States by Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase. The congressman who appointed Grant mistakenly believed his first name was Ulysses and his middle name was Simpson (his mother's maiden name). Gran... To restore his family's income and reputation, Grant wrote several articles on his Civil War campaigns for, Today, medical historians believed he suffered from a T, Historian Gregory Downs said, "After the war, Confederate apologists launched a brutally effective propaganda campaign against Grant to obscure the true history of slavery, the Civil War and the white Southern terrorist campaigns against Reconstruction. [295] On March 2, 1867, overriding Johnson's veto, Congress passed the first of three Reconstruction Acts, using military officers to enforce the policy. [530] Instead, Grant remained in Washington and on February 12, 1876, gave a deposition in Babcock's defense, expressing that his confidence in his secretary was "unshaken". [651][652][bk] Grant had briefly owned one slave, whom he set free. In 1953, Van Voorhis, a junior, turned the tutoring program into an incorporated nonprofit organization that he named the Ulysses S. Grant Foundation. Grant took Twain up on his offer, and later finished the book just a few days before succumbing to cancer in July 1885. Date of Death: July 23, 1885, Mount McGregor, Saratoga Springs, New York. The vanquished Lee, afterwards asked Grant that his former Confederate troops keep their horses. Even Grant himself can get injured if he's not careful. [492] Belknap, Williams, and Delano[ba] told Grant a veto would hurt Republicans in the November elections. [376] During Republican negotiations with Democrats, that Grant took no direct part in, the Republicans received the White House for Hayes in return for ending enforcement of racial equality for blacks and removing federal troops from the last three states. Grant established and organized a field hospital in Panama City, and moved the worst cases to a hospital barge one mile offshore. Nov 3, 2021 Updated Nov 5, 2021. This picture shows President Grant working on his memoirs at a friend's home. [5] Jesse Grant moved to Point Pleasant in 1820 and found work as a foreman in a tannery. [278] After the Grand Review of the Armies, Lee and his generals were indicted for treason in Virginia. Biographer Edward G. Longacre offers the theory held by some biographers that Grant's parents' decision was based on their recognition of his aversion to music. [413] Critics complained of Grant's reliance on military personnel to implement his policies. [373] Grant signed it as the Civil Rights Act of 1875, but there was little enforcement and the Supreme Court ruled the law unconstitutional in 1883. Speculation, lifestyle extravagance, and corruption in federal offices were rampant. Opponents called it a violation of the unofficial two-term rule in use since George Washington. "[152], Bolstered by 18,000 fresh troops from the divisions of Major Generals Buell and Lew Wallace, Grant counterattacked at dawn the next day and regained the field, forcing the disorganized and demoralized rebels to retreat back to Corinth. [632] According to historian David Heffernan, Grant's presidency has been "unfairly denigrated" for generations, disregarding his prosecution of the Klan, and peaceful resolution of the controversial Election of 1876. Ulysses S. Grant faced a formidable command challenge on the first day at Shiloh in April 1862 when caught off guard by Albert Sydney Johnston’s spirited Rebel attack. [266] Grant immediately rode west, bypassing Lee's army, to join Sheridan who had captured Appomattox Station, blocking Lee's escape route. Grant was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio on April 27, 1822 to Jesse Root Grant (1794–1873), a tanner, and Hannah Simpson Grant (1798–1883), both Pennsylvania natives. A quarter of a million people viewed it in the two days before the funeral. [437] The Southern Democrats, wanting to protect American rice and sugar producers, tried to squash a bill to implement the Hawaiian treaty. ", "During the Civil War, Gen. Ulysses Grant Began Expelling Southern Jews â Until Lincoln Stepped In", "Gold Resumption and the Deflation of the 1870s", "Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy", "Federal Enforcement of Civil Rights During the First Reconstruction", "The Oral Tumours of two American Presidents: What If They Were Alive Today? [198] On April 16, Grant ordered Admiral David Dixon Porter's gunboats south under fire from the Vicksburg batteries to meet up with troops who had marched south down the west side of the river. Grant’s middle name was actually Ulysses. [599] Because of the summer heat and humidity, his doctors recommended that he move upstate to a cottage at the top of Mount McGregor, offered by a family friend. [380] Grant's religious faith also influenced his policy towards Native Americans, believing that the "Creator" did not place races of men on earth for the "stronger" to destroy the "weaker". [641][642] From 1890 to 1940, part of what is now Kings Canyon National Park was called General Grant National Park, named for the General Grant sequoia. "Yes," replied Grant. [136] Foote's gunboats bombarded Fort Henry, leading to its surrender on February 6, 1862, before Grant's infantry even arrived. [165], Later that year, on September 19, Grant's army defeated Confederates at the Battle of Iuka, then successfully defended Corinth, inflicting heavy casualties. [488] Grant believed that, as with the collapse of the Gold Ring in 1869, the panic was merely an economic fluctuation that affected bankers and brokers. On June 14, again aided by Washburne, Grant was promoted to Colonel and put in charge of the unruly 21st Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment, which he soon restored to good order and discipline. Serving as assistant quartermaster made Grant a complete soldier, and learning how to supply an entire army gave Grant the training to sustain large armies. Grant kept his legal and voting resident in Galena. [96] During the Panic of 1857, which devastated Grant as it did many farmers, Grant had to pawn his gold watch in order to buy Christmas gifts for his family. In the intensely disputed presidential election of 1876, Grant facilitated the approval by Congress of a peaceful compromise. [215] Grant's new rank had only previously been held by George Washington. [55] He demonstrated his equestrian ability at the Battle of Monterrey by volunteering to carry a dispatch past snipers, where he hung off the side of his horse, keeping the animal between him and the enemy. Grant castigated Custer in the press, saying "I regard Custer's massacre as a sacrifice of troops, brought on by Custer himself, that was wholly unnecessaryâwholly unnecessary. [19] To others, including his own son, Grant appeared to be an agnostic. Despite being a potential target himself, he was convinced he would have somehow stopped John Wilkes Booth from pulling the trigger. [561] Grant's tour demonstrated to Europe and Asia that the United States was an emerging world power. Apparently confused with Grant’s mothers maiden name of Simpson, Hamer mistakenly nominated him as Ulysses S. Grant. His time in charge of the Union Army notwithstanding, Grant was a political novice when he was inaugurated as the 18th president in 1869. “No terms except complete and unconditional surrender can be accepted,” he famously warned the garrison’s commander. Hiram Ulysses Grant was stuck with the name Ulysses S. Grant due to a mistake by a benefactor on his application form to West Point. On September 14 Grant was enlisted Cadet "U.S. Grant" at the national academy. In his retirement, Grant was the first president to circumnavigate the world on his tour, dining with Queen Victoria and meeting many prominent foreign leaders. [379] He appointed Ely S. Parker, a Seneca and member of his wartime staff, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the first Native American to serve in this position, surprising many around him. By Bob Imhoff. Battles of Belmont, Fort Henry, and Fort Donelson, Secretary of War and 1868 presidential campaign, Ulysses S. Grant presidential administration scandals. [630] Militarily evaluated, Grant was a modern general and "a skillful leader who had a natural grasp of tactics and strategy. "[627] Charles W. Calhoun's The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant (2017) noted Grant's successes in office, but asked whether Grant's revived reputation was found in the "popular consciousness. He just changed the first and middle names order. [131] Grant had wanted to destroy Confederate strongholds at both Belmont, Missouri and Columbus, Kentucky, but was not given enough troops and was only able to disrupt their positions. "[269] After briefly discussing their days of old in Mexico, Grant wrote out the terms of surrender. When he accepted the surrender of Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia in April 1865, Grant offered generous terms that paroled Confederate soldiers and officers and allowed them to return to their homes. [419] On July 17, Grant sent his military White House aide Orville E. Babcock to evaluate the islands' resources, local conditions, and Báez's terms for annexation, but was given no diplomatic authority. For his part, Abraham Lincoln appeared unperturbed by the gossip. On February 14, Foote's gunboats began bombarding the fort, only to be repulsed by its heavy guns. Grant was sympathetic to the plight of persecuted Jewish people. 3. [221] Grant and Meade would make a direct frontal attack on Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, while Shermanânow chief of the western armiesâwas to destroy Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee and take Atlanta. Found insideChapter One General and Gentleman Hiram Ulysses Grant's first name meant " noble one . ” He shared his middle name with a famous Greek leader who defeated his enemies . Classmates at military school called Ulysses “ Sam . Congress ratified the agreement three days before Grant left office in 1877. Confederate General Van Dorn's raid on Holly Springs (December 20), prevented many Jewish people from potential expulsion.
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