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4 giorni fa · 6.8K subscribers. 0. No views 1 minute ago. Historian Amanda Clark shares an excerpt from a love letter Ulysses S. Grant sent to his future wife Julia as he served in the Mexican-American...
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3 giorni fa · The Life of Julia Dent Grant. Includes a chronology of her travels in order to be with Ulysses during the Civil War. Julia's Eye Condition. Julia Grants Eyes: A Love Story. From presidential historian Feather Schwartz Foster's blog.
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22 ore fa · The letter, penned from Windsor Castle on August 26, 1940 to Lady Aston, includes a signed photograph of the castle. The future queen had promised to return the picture to a Canadian soldier in convalescence at Cliveden. It reads: "I am so sorry not to have sent the photograph before but here it is at last. I do hope the soldier has not gone away.
3 giorni fa · Ulysses S. Grant was a devoted family man. He and his wife Julia had four children and were fortunate not to lose any of them to an early death, as was so often in the case in those days of untreatable diseases and lack of medical care we take for granted today. They were proud of their children and the children respected them.
1 giorno fa · Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; [b] April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American military officer and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As commanding general, Grant led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War in 1865 and briefly served as U.S. secretary of war.
2 giorni fa · Estimations of Grant’s military capabilities began to rise in the 1950s as historians and popular writers proved that forces under Grant’s command suffered fewer casualties than his Confederate counterparts. But the re-evaluation of his presidency has been much slower, beginning in the 1980s and continuing to this day.
3 giorni fa · Detailed Account of Grant's Last Days and Funerals from Life and Personal Memories of U. S. Grant, by R. A. Fenton, 1886. Pages 158 to 268 contain a highly detailed account of Grant's last days at Mt. McGregor and the activities and ceremonies following his death.
