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

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

4. 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. 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. 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. 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. Frederick Dent (1850–1912), Ulysses Simpson (1852–1929), Ellen Wrenshall (1855–1922),

9. Died July 23, 1885, Mount McGregor, New York

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

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

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