Title

Ulysses S. Grant: soldier and president.

Description

Biography of General and President Ulysses S. Grant.

Identifier

2653260

679447660

Creator

Perret, Geoffrey

Format

1st ed.

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

1997

Program air date: October 12, 1997

Publisher

Random House

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front endpapers: Grant deplored war. Where did he get this manic. Slavery--Dent (Julian) Grant. Mark Twain. Charles Sumner. Grant's groomsmen. Surrendered at Appomattox. P 82. James Longstreet, Cadmus Marcelus Wilcox, Bernard Pratte III. Sues Zach Chandler in Detroit. He ends up a U.S. Senator and Sec. of Interior. Migraine headaches. Slouched badly. Revolutionary War average height 5'4"; Civil War 5'6"; WWII 5'8". Hiram Ulysses Grant spent 23 yrs as a soldier. b. Apr 27, 1822 d. July 23, 1885. Point Pleasant, Ohio moved to Georgetown. "Useless" 1839-West Point. 5 more children Samuel, Clara, Orvil, Mary, Virginia. U.S. Grant p 21 name. Grant's "Luck." Bruce Catton-admired him. William McFeely disdained him. p. 373 hostile biographer. Grant's feelings about D.C. p. 348. Panic of 1873 p 421. Credit Moblier. The Whiskey Ring. Julia--one of the world's least satisfying correspondents. St. Louis Farm. Home in Galena. Home in Long Branch, N.J. [Verso]: Grant didn't swear. Julia owned 4 slaves--U.S. was opposed. Grant as a farmer, as a rent collector. Grant was desperate in 1860. Well read but didn't appear bookish. Why did Grant resign his commission? Why did he have such a hard time getting command at start of Civil War. What did Grant leave out of his Memoirs? Grant's relationship with John Rawlins " M" to James Garfield. Notes on front fly sheet: White House--Julia popular/locked the gates. 83yr father moved in. Lincoln's assassin brought on Secret Service. Grant walked street alone. 4 children Fred-W.P., Nellie in W.H., Julia-cross-eyed, Ulysses-Harvard, Jesse in W.H. Grant hated Charles Sumner--Santa Domingo Treaty p. 399. First 4 star General in American History. First Term Pres.--Big Issue--National Debt (2.5 B) Reconstruction's-losing steam. Radicalism had been rejected. Gold Panic--Jay Gould/Jim Fisk/Abel Corbin marries Jenny p. 391. Notes on half-title: As admiring as Bruce Catton or as disdainful as William Feely. Youngest Pres. at tme-46--52% of vote. Schuyler Colfax. He walked everyday--6 miles around Georgetown-Sundays. Hated Charles Sumner. 1. Grant disdained party politics; 2. " had no grand vision to lead country; 3. disliked being Pres; 4. Had no interest in material possessions. Debt 2.5 Billion. Garfield didn't like Grant. Grant's brother Orvil-one bad seed. Grant homes: Georgetown, Ohio; Galena, Illinois. West Point, Fort Vancouver, OR, St. Louis, Eureka, Cal., Long Branch, N.J., Mexico. Notes: "Wouldn't live near slaves," "Jesse 1821 Hannah and Jesse married," "Useless," "horses," "best read," "1836 Maysville, KY," "intellectual," "West Point," "1839 West Point," "U.S. Grant," "Westerners," "73 passed test," "dancing," "classmates," "Sam nickname," "Jack Lindsey thrashed him," "Napoleon Club," "return to Bethel," "slouchiest," "horseman," "Mary King," "conduct slipped," "March 1843 struck his horse," "high horse jump," "21 in class of 39," "Infantry," "Cincinnati trip," "Colonel Dent," "Julia," "hated slavery," "U.S. never argued," "Julia nothing wrong with slavery," "engaged," "gone a year," "son-in-law," "Dent died poor," "Zachary Taylor role model," "naked," "5'8" or 5'7"," "March 1846 Mexico declared was," "Hamer dies," "Julia didn't write much," "beard hair to Julia," "July 1848," "Chandler," "liquor," "Ft. Vancouver," "a drunk Grant with McClellan," "rotten tooth, rheumatism, migraines," "Ja. 23, 1854," "Built his own house," "Julia owned 4 slaves," "male slave $1500," "Sherman failed as a banker," "War," "depression of 1857," "Galena," "well read," "Dred Scott," "John Brown," "Grant would have voted for Douglas," "Ft. Sumter," "John Rawlins," "bullshit artist," "George McClellan," "He did everything to get a command," "May 17 Grant made a General," "Fremont relieved," "McFeely," "Grant's brush against death," "Nov 1861 Belmont-Grant commanded 3000 men in battle," "Save the Union not end slavery," "Grant & Lincoln never have met," "Grant's drinking," "Shiloh and liquor," "binge drinker," "Corinth," "Horse accident," "Grant 'drunk again'," "Bruce Catton," "didn't look like a great general," "Garfield opposed Grant promotion 3 stars," "Grant's Memoirs," "James Wilson, homosexual affair w Adam Badeau," "Willard Hotel, Mar 8, 1864," "Parlor 6," "scrubby look, seedy, cigar," "General Jacko the monkey with the long tail," "2nd strategic thinking General," "Grant's Army, 5 powerful converging columns," "500,000 Union troops," "Grant broke down, 20 cigars," "Grant statue," "Meade," "Jeb Stuart killed," "wide envelopment," "wire defense," "whites made prisoners/blacks shot," "Grant's feelings about WASH," "lived in a tent," "Cigars," "Grant and Lincoln," "Lincoln wins 55/45," "Sherman's march," "Appomattox," "Lee surrenders," "Ford's theater," "Lincoln dead," "Seward wounded," "greatest man," "May 23 and 24," "Andrew Johnson," "D.C. House 205 Eye Street," "hang Southerners," "Son Fred to West. Pt.," "1st veto override," "14th amend.," "Grant to Mexico," "Aug 1867 Sec of War," "McFeely," "on the wall," "talk horse," "a Republican," "he was no radical," "streetcar," "$25,000 a year," "Chicago convention," "Stanton tells him," "Schuyler Colfax," "To Galena," "Dem. Press said he was drunkard, madman, dictator," "vote 52.7%," "national issue 'debt'," "cabinet," "46 yr old youngest," "no gov issue paper money," "money," "6 cabinet members," "Ham Fish Sec. State," "Navy Sec. Borie quit after 3 months," "challenged spoils system," "recession," "Abel Corbin married Jenny Grant," "Spain and Cuba," "Charles Sumner, brain damage, impotent," "Jan 3 1870 Grant visits Sumner," "blacks," "Lost treaty of San Domingo," "Grant hated Sumner," "Julia redid the White House, locked the gates," "Grant walked every day," "Six hours in G.T. on Sunday," "soldiers in South," "15th amend," "voting rights?" "no grand vision," "Stalwarts," "Conkling's affair," "5 issues of the day," "Whitelaw Reid," "Horace Greeley," "1869 won election," "disliked being Pres.," "Northern Pacific runs out of money," "Panic of 1873," "Inflation Bill," "U.S. owned Dent farm," "passed Inf. Bill," "Veto," "longest recession in history," "Ely Parker," "stood up at marriage," "1974 Custer," "Orvil, Grant's brother," "Big Horn 1876," "no interest in money, material possessions," "June '73 Jesse dying, age 79," "Julia's father dies a year later," "1874 Nellie marries," "Grant bursts into tears," "son Fred," "Orvil, Chicago fire," "Historians," "Gold Corner," "Relatives got appointments," "reform civil service," "corrupt D.C.," "Garfield," "Credit Mobilier," "Belknap had to resign Sec of War," "Mullett," "Grants wants it over," "most popular man in American politics," "Blaine's stroke," "Rud Hayes," "in debt," "Grant's generosity," "horses," "end of Civil War," "184 lbs, 50 pounds heavier," "May 17 1877 sailed to Europe," "ordinary people," "liked to wander the streets," "didn't want to live outside U.S.," "Egypt," M Viceroy to India," "McFeely's nonsense," "Twain a former Confederate soldier," "3rd term," "6 days, 35 ballots," "Garfield, Chester Arthur," "never spoke for more than 10 min," "E. 66th N.Y.C.," "Hannah dies 1883," "fell on Christmas eve.," "John Russell Young," "Nast, Whitman, Twain," "Buck his son," "Grant and Ward," "Ponzi scheme," "Ward got 10 years," "bit a peach," "1881 to USG start writing," "Spring 1885," "150,000 copies."

Subject

"Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885."

"United States. Army--Biography."

"Presidents--United States--Biography."

"Generals--United States--Biography."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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