About U.S. Grant as a private citizen of the Unites States—during his boyhood (1822–1843), post-Army antebellum years (1854–1860), and post-presidency (1877–1885).
From Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant (1885): The framers were wise in their generation and wanted to do the very…
New York City & Mount McGregor, NY. It was 1885, and 63-year-old Ulysses S. Grant, former commanding-general of the U.S….
Georgetown, Ohio. Ulysses S. Grant’s boyhood. Brooks D. Simpson in his biography Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity (2014), describes…
April 27, 1822. Grant is born in Point Pleasant, Ohio, to Jesse Root Grant and Hannah Simpson Grant, and named…
Penniless Addict Becomes President of the United States It was 1854, and Ulysses S. Grant was broke, unemployed, trapped in…