"I did not parade with either party, but occasionally met with the “wide awakes" — Republicans — in their rooms, and superintended their drill. - Ulysses S. Grant
"I did not parade with either party, but occasionally met with the “wide awakes" — Republicans — in their rooms, and superintended their drill.
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Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant (27 April 1822 – 23 July 1885), born as Hiram Ulysses Grant, was the 18th president of the United States of America, from 1869 to 1877. As the Commanding General of the U.S. Army, Grant worked closely with U.S. President Abraham Lincoln to lead the U.S. Army to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. He implemented Congressional Reconstruction, often at odds with Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson. Twice elected to the presidency, Grant led the Republicans in their effort to remove the vestiges of Confederate nationalism and slavery, protect the citizenship of African-Americans, and support U.S. economic prosperity.
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Hiram Ulysses Grant
Also Known As:“Unconditional Surrender” Grant
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General Grant
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Ulysses Hiram Grant
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Ulysses Grant
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Ulysses S Grant
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President Grant
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U. S. Grant
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U.S. Grant
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Ulysses Simpson Grant
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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten. Then he who continues the attack wins.
This act brought on a crisis in the career of the general commanding. He had asserted from the beginning that the administration was hostile to him; that it had failed in its promises of men and war material; that the President himself had shown duplicity if not treachery in the endeavor to procure the appointment of Benton: and the administration now gave open evidence of its enmity.
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The copperhead disreputable portion of the press magnified rebel successes, and belittled those of the Union army. It was, with a large following, an auxiliary to the Confederate army. The North would have been much stronger with a hundred thousand of these men in the Confederate ranks and the rest of their kind thoroughly subdued, as the Union sentiment was in the South, than we were as the battle was fought.
