The 18th President of The United States, Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant: Later in the administration of Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant Gen Rinio with the President and he enlisted with the Radical Republicans. He was the symbol of Union victory during the civil war, resulting logical candidate for President in 1868. When he was elected, Americans expected an end to the agitation. Grant did not provide neither vigor nor reform. Looking for Congress to counseling, he looked puzzled. A visitor to the White House felt "embarrassed as a man with a problem against which he does not understand the terms patterns". Born in 1822, Grant was the son of a worker in Ohio. He went to Westpoint against his will and graduated from the middle of his class. In the Mexican War he fought under the command of Gen. Zachary Taylor. When the civil war broke out, Grant worked at the store hides his father in Galena, Illinois. He was appointed by the governor to lead an incorrigible volunteer regiment. Grant put them in shape and September 1861, was promoted to the rank of brigadier general of volunteers. He tried to gain control of the Mississippi Valley. In February 1862, he took Fort Henry and Fort Donelson attacked. When the Confederate commander asked for terms, Grant replied, "no terrmino except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted." The Confederates surrendered, and President Lincoln promoted Grant to the rank of Major General of volunteers.

At Shiloh in April, Grant fought one of the bloodiest battles of the west and went not very well. President Lincoln detour claims for retirement saying, "I can not waste this man, the fight." For his next major objective, Grant maneuvered and fought skillfully to win Vicksburg, Mississippi key city, and thus cut the Confederacy in two. Then after he broke the Confederate hold on Chattanooga. Lincoln appointed him General-in-Chief in March 1864. Grant Sherman motioned for him to address itself, with the Army of the Potomac, pinned down the army of Gen. Robert E. Lee of Northern Virginia. Finally, on April 9, 1865, at Appomattox Court, Lee surrendered. Grant put the terms in writing magnos delivery that would prevent trials taición. As President, Grant presided over the Government much as he did to the army. In fact he brought most of his staff in the army to the White House. Although a man of scrupulous honesty, Grant as President accepted beautiful present of his admirers. Worse, he allowed it to be seen with two speculators, Jay Gould and James Fisk. When Grant realized their scheme to corner the gold market, he authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to sell enough gold to wreck their plans, but speculation had caused havoc in business.

During his reelection campaign in 1872, Grant was attacked by Republicans liberal reformers. He called them "men of narrow minds." Friends general in the Republican party were known as "The Old Guard". Grant allowed the radical reconstruction will take its course in the south, occasionally encouraging it with military force. After retiring from the presidency, Grant partner in a financial firm, which went bankrupt was made. This time he learned he had throat cancer. He began writing his memoirs to pay their debts and to provide for his family, racing against death, he wrote a memoir that earned him nearly $ 450,000. Soon after finishing the last page, in 1885, he died.