Ulysses S. Grant

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This paper discusses the life of Ulysses S. Grant. It describes his unremarkable youth and his failure at every occupation he attempted, until he entered the United States Army where his talents of leadership secured the unity of the United States. It also discusses the successes and failures of his presidency, however concludes that he may have been the most popular American of the nineteenth century.

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"Grant then moved his headquarters to Petersburg so he would be near the final battleground, and his military strategy proved correct, for Lee was defeated at Petersburg, and surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865 (Ulysses1). Under Grant's command, Union troops had pierced the heart of the South by destroying homes, farms and factories, until the Southerners had no will to fight (Ulysses). Grant's terms of surrender were generous and helped begin the process of healing the nation into a whole again (Ulysses1). Grant had entered the war as a failure, a man who could barely provide for his family, and after four bloody years of war, he emerged as a national hero."

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• Goode, Stephen. "Ulysses S. Grant: 'the unheroic hero'" World and I. July 1, 1999. Retrieved December 12 2006 from HighBeam Research Library.
• Lasner, Lynn Fabian. "The Rise and Fall and Rise of Ulysses S. Grant." Humanities. January/February 2002. Retrieved December 12 2006 from: http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2002-01/grant.html
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