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United States of America’s 18 President,

Gentry Mitchell’s presentation on…. United States of America’s 18 President,. President Ulysess S. Grant. President Ulysess S. Grant. Born in 1822, Grant was the son of an Ohio tanner. President Ulysess S. Grant.

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United States of America’s 18 President,

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  1. Gentry Mitchell’s presentation on…. United States of America’s 18 President, President UlysessS. Grant

  2. President UlysessS. Grant Born in 1822, Grant was the son of an Ohio tanner.

  3. President UlysessS. Grant He went to West Point rather against his will and graduated in the middle of his class. He went to West Point rather against his will and graduated in the middle of his class. He went to West Point rather against his will and graduated in the middle of his class.

  4. President UlysessS. Grant Born Methodist, but was not religious. He attended church services occasionally as an adult, but he did it primarily to please his wife, Julia, who was genuinely religious.

  5. President UlysessS. Grant August 22, 1848, St. Louis, Missouri. Grant marries a Missouri slave-owners daughter, Julia Boggs Dent. He finally finds happiness in a marriage that is an unusually rich and close relationship. He had been courting Julia for four years, though much of the wooing took place through the U.S. mails. His love letters to her survive, and they make engrossing reading.

  6. President UlysessS. Grant As President, Grant presided over the Government much as he had run the Army. Indeed he brought part of his Army staff to the White House.

  7. President UlysessS. Grant Lincoln appointed him General-in-Chief in March 1864. Grant directed Sherman to drive through the South while he himself, with the Army of the Potomac, pinned down Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.

  8. President UlysessS. Grant Frederick Dent (1850–1912), Ulysses Simpson (1852–1929), Ellen Wrenshall (1855–1922),

  9. President UlysessS. Grant Died July 23, 1885, Mount McGregor, New York

  10. President UlysessS. Grant Grant was placed on the United States fifty-dollar bill in 1913.

  11. President UlysessS. Grant Grant, in constant pain, spent most of his last days writing his memoirs on a wicker chair at Mount McGregor.

  12. WORK CITED http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/ulyssessgrant http://www.granthomepage.com/grantfacts.htm http://americancivilwar.com/north/grant.html http://millercenter.org/president/grant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant

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