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Ulysses S. Grant
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You must take it; I cannot live with anything in my possession that is not mine.
— As quoted in The New York Times (24 July 1885)
Ulysses S. Grant
President of the United States from 1869 to 1877
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Lived 1822–1885, aged 63United States
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The Union general who broke the Confederacy's spine at Vicksburg and took Lee's surrender at Appomattox, then spent eight years in the White House trying to finish the war by other means — protecting freed people, prosecuting the Klan, watching his administration drown in scandal.
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Born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Ohio in 1822, he graduated West Point in 1843, distinguished himself in the Mexican–American War, then returned to civilian life broke by 1854. The Civil War pulled him back: victories in the western theater in 1862, the Vicksburg campaign that gave the Union the Mississippi in 1863, promotion to command all Union armies after Chattanooga, and finally the Overland Campaign that ended with Lee's surrender at Appomattox in 1865. A war hero drawn in by duty, he won the presidency in 1868 and spent two terms stabilizing the economy, enforcing Reconstruction, signing the…
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Pete, let us have another game of brag, to recall the days that were so pleasant.
— As quoted in The New York Times (24 July 1885)
Ulysses S. Grant
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General Burnside wanted to put his colored division in front, and I believe if he had done so it would have been a success.
— To the Committee on the Conduct of the War, as quoted in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (1884-1888), edited by Robert Underwood
Ulysses S. Grant
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I don't know why black skin may not cover a true heart as well as a white one.
— Reportedly said to a neighbor in 1856, as quoted in A Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant (1868), by Albert Deane Richardson, Hartford,
Ulysses S. Grant
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My lord, I have heard that your father was a military man. Was that the case?
— To Arthur Richard Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington, son of Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, as quoted in Handy-book
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