![]() ![]() He went to West Point reluctantly and graduated in the middle of his class. The type has also been enlarged to create a large print edition.īorn in 1822, Grant was the son of an Ohio tanner. This digital reproduction of the C.L. Webster Shoulder Board Set is Volume 2 of 2. Soon after completing the last page, in 1885, he died. He started writing his recollections to pay off his debts and provide for his family, racing against death to produce these Memoirs. About that time he learned that he had cancer of the throat. After retiring from the Presidency, Grant became a partner in a financial firm, which went bankrupt. Indeed he brought part of his Army staff to the White House. As President, Grant presided over the Government much as he had run the Army. Grant wrote out magnanimous terms of surrender that would prevent treason trials. ![]() Finally, on April 9, 1865, at Appomattox Court House, Lee surrendered. Grant directed Sherman to drive through the South while he himself, with the Army of the Potomac, pinned down General Robert E. Lincoln appointed him General-in-Chief in March 1864. Then he broke the Confederate hold on Chattanooga. For his next major objective, Grant then maneuvered and fought skillfully to win Vicksburg, the key city on the Mississippi, cutting the Confederacy in two. Lincoln fended off demands for his removal by saying, "I can't spare this man he fights". At Shiloh in April, Grant fought one of the bloodiest battles in the West and came out less well. When the Confederate commander asked for terms, Grant replied, No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted.' The Confederates surrendered, and President Lincoln promoted Grant to major general of volunteers. In February 1862, he took Fort Henry and attacked Fort Donelson. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Grant was appointed by the governor to command an unruly volunteer regiment, quickly rising to the rank of brigadier general of volunteers. Born in 1822, Grant was the son of an Ohio tanner. Webster Shoulder Board Set, Volume 2 of 2.
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