ULYSSES S. GRANT
The 18th President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, was a most curious American public figure. His two presidential terms are considered by political critics as the most corrupt in American history, yet his contribution and role in those most important and historic times cannot be under-estimated.

He was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in 1822 to a hardworking couple in southwestern Ohio. He went to a seminary and a Presbyterian academy, as well as worked with horses in his father's farm (Grant 1885-1886), working with horses. At 17, he was admitted to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point through a Congressman from Ohio. In 1839, he entered West Point, where he enjoyed drill and discipline more than most cadets did. He finished only with an average record, ranking only 21st in class. While hoping to teach Mathematics at the academy, he was instead assigned to an infantry…...

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Bibliography

Bush, George W. 2002. Ulysses S. Grant: The White House Biography

Grant, Ulysses S. 2000. Personal Memoirs. New York: Bartleby.com

MSN Learning and Research. 2002. Ulysses S. Grant:

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In fact, Norton claims that while the hiskey Ring investigation was taking place, Grant had stated, "Let no guilty man escape" (Bailey 512) but when news that his secretary was involved surfaced, he "speedily changed his views" (512). Grant wrote a personal note to the jury and "with all the weight of his exalter office behind it, the their escaped" (512). hen Belknap was exposed, Grant accepted his resignation "with great regret" while the Senate voted to impeach him. Norton maintains that by 1872, there was a "wave of disgust with Grantism" (Norton 512), leading to a surge of popularity of a liberal Republican Party, who simply wanted to "turn the rascals out" (512). Grant never seemed to grasp the notion of what it took to lead a country and he failed to separate his personal feelings from his duties as president.
Simon distinguishes between Grant's military experience and political…...

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Bailey, Thomas, et al. The American Pageant. Lexington D.C. Heath and Company. 1994.

Davidson, James. Nation of Nations. Vol. II. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company.

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Church, William Conant. Ulysses S. Grant and the Period of National Preservation and Reconstruction. New York: The Knickerbocker Press. 1897.

Grant supporter, George Curtis, editor of Harper's eekly, once wrote to a friend, "I think the warmest friends of Grant feel that he has failed terribly as President, but not from want of honesty or desire, but from want of tact and great ignorance...It is a political position and he knows nothing of politics and rather despises them" (Goode)..
After he left office, Grant and Julia settled in New York. Grant soon went bankrupt after investing in a all Street firm co-owned by his son Buck. To support his family, he began writing magazine articles, and eventually negotiated a book contract with his friend Mark Twain's company (Ulysses). His memoirs, published in a two-volume set, sold 300,000 copies and became a classic work of American literature, however sadly Grant never saw the profits, for he died just two months after the book went to press, on July 23, 1885 (Ulysses).…...

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Works Cited

Goode, Stephen. "Ulysses S. Grant: 'the unheroic hero'" World and I. July 1, 1999.

Retrieved December 12, 2006 from HighBeam Research Library.

Lasner, Lynn Fabian. "The Rise and Fall and Rise of Ulysses S. Grant." Humanities.

January/February 2002. Retrieved December 12, 2006 at  http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2002-01/grant.html

After all, "he was headed South, toward Richmond, not back to ashington in retreat. To Grant, even the heavy losses in the ilderness signified a victory. The Confederates had no reserves to replace the dead and wounded. But Grant could call on a huge supply of civilians to fill the Union armies" (People & events: Grant's greatest battles, 2006, PBS).
At Cold Harbor, Grant lost 12,000 men but while his causalities were much higher than the Confederates, he knew that Sherman and other Union generals were destroying what was left of the South elsewhere. After nine months, the Union was able to starve the blockaded forces of Lee out of Petersburg. hen Lee retreated, Grant took Richmond, and Lee eventually surrendered at Appomattox. It was Grant's willingness to sacrifice his men that eventually brought the war to its end. Grant's decision was bloody, but it could be argued that waiting…...

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Works Cited

McPherson, James (2000). Ordeal by fire. New York: McGraw-Hill.

People & events: Grant's greatest battles. (2006). The American Experience. PBS. Retrieved

October 17, 2009 at  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/grant/peopleevents/e_general.html 

Ulysses S. Grant. (2009). Ohio History. Retrieved October 17, 2009 at  http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=155

The Treaty of Versailles, which ended the First World War and which Wilson played a key part in negotiating, was never ratified by the U.S. Congress and, as a result, the United States never became a member of the League of Nations.
Wilson's behavior in reaction to opposition in Congress regarding the Versailles Treaty, in general, and the League of Nations portion of that Treaty, specifically, may be the best indication of the similarities between himself and President Grant. Both men had a strong stubborn streak that often interfered with their otherwise competent leadership skills. In Grant's case, his stubbornness was characterized by his misguided loyalty to his friends and military associates. Throughout his two administrations, Grant continued to surround himself with his friends and former military associates and place such individuals in positions of authority instead of utilizing the services of talented and experienced politicians. The result was that…...

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References

Cooper, J. (2011). Woodrow Wilson: A Biography. London: Vintage.

Livermore, S.W. (1966). Woodrow Wilson and the war Congress. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Mantell, M.E. (1973). Johnson, Grant, and the Politics of Reconstruction. New York: Columbia University Press.

Smith, J.E. (2001). Grant. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Scandals During Grant's Presidency
Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, had a reputation as a very honest man, but one who exercised poor judgment in his choice of companions. Evidence of Grant's poor judgment can be found in the sheer number of scandals that occurred during his presidency. One notable scandal during Grant's tenure as president was the Black Friday Gold Panic of 1869. Another scandal during his presidency was the Whisky ing. Examining both these scandals reveals that Grant did not personally profit from the scandals, but was willing to use his position as President to help out his less scrupulous acquaintances. Unfortunately, the willingness to use his power and influence to help out less scrupulous friends, though it did not provide any personal benefit to Grant, tainted his presidency as much as if he had personally profited from those scandals.

The Black Friday Gold Panic of…...

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References

Encyclopaedia Britannica. 2013. Whiskey Ring. Encylopaedia Britannica.

 http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/641929/Whiskey-Ring 

Fat Wallet. 2013. Black Friday 1869. Fat Wallet.  http://www.fatwallet.com/black-friday/resources/black-friday-1869/ 

The University of Richmond. 2009. Grant Administration Embroiled in Whisky Ring Scandal.

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Despite all of the destruction and chaos that had crippled the South as a result of the war and his surrender to Grant, Lee was considered "the symbol of everything for which (the Confederate soldiers) had been willing to die." Thus, "if the Lost Cause," being the loss of the Old South and its aristocratic/slavery system, "sanctified by so much heroism and so many deaths, had a living justification," it was obert E. Lee (Catton, 2003, 632).

In contrast, Ulysses S. Grant "was everything Lee was not," for instead of being raised in a rather well-to-do family with close and important ties to a number of wealthy and prominent Southern political figures and leaders, Grant, the son of a skin tanner of the Western American frontier, had been raised "the hard way" and symbolized the "eternal toughness" and sinewy fiber" of the great mountain men, those who had fled civilization…...

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References

Catton, Bruce. (2003). "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts." Bannon: A Writer's Workshop: Crafting Paragraphs, Building Essays. New York: McGraw-Hill Companies, 631-34.

Grant and ilson
I propose that doing a comparison of Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and oodrow ilson would allow for a comprehensive understanding of how the leadership styles of these two men shaped the United States of America during their respective administrations. They will be compared in terms of their public and political leadership, how they functioned as Chief Executive and the leader of the Executive Branch, and how they functioned as Chief Legislator including their relationship with Congress.

Public and Political Leader:

During his initial run for office, Grant was a very popular man with the American public. He was considered a hero of the Civil ar. His accomplishments included expansion of Republicanism into the south which yielded the first elections of black Congressmen. However, his administration was marred by corruption and he has gone down in history as one of the least effective presidents politically (ilentz 2010).

Like Grant, ilson was a…...

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Blackmon, Douglas A. (2009). Slavery by Another Name: the Re-Enslavement of Black

Americans from the Civil War to World War II. Anchor Books. 357-58.

Cooper, John (2009). Woodrow Wilson: A Biography.

Link, Arthur (1945). "The Baltimore Convention of 1912." American Historical Review. 50(4):

He focused on tariff reform in the Underwood-Simmons Act by arguing that high tariffs created monopolies and hurt consumers, pushed to end certain child labor practices, and above all tried to engender a fairer distribution of public funds for housing, utilities, and public projects (Wilson, 2011).
However, looking back at his pre-World War I policies, it was his adamant work on currency and banking reform that seemed to have the greatest impact on American society. The Federal eserve's Monetary Policy is the most important function of the Fed and is probably the most used policy in macroeconomics. Monetary policy refers to the actions undertaken by a central bank, such as the Federal eserve, to influence the availability and cost of money and credit to help promote national economic goals. The Federal eserve Act of 1913 gave the Federal eserve responsibility for setting monetary policy. The Federal eserve controls the three…...

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Grant: A Reference Resource. (2011). Miller Center at the University of Virginia. Cited in:  http://millercenter.org/president/grant/essays/biography/4 

Woodrow Wilson. (2011). Conservapedia.com. Cited in:  http://www.conservapedia.com/Woodrow_Wilson 

Wilson: A Reference Resource. (2011). Miller Center at the University of Virginia. Cited in:

 http://millercenter.org/president/wilson/essays/biography/4

Ultimately, Grant may be remembered as one of America's best generals. He is still the only general in history to capture three separate armies, and he presided over Lee's surrender at Appomattox in April 1865. He was also a fair man who treated the Confederates well during their surrender. He was simply determined not to allow the South to be victorious. He sometimes misjudged his generals, and perhaps left some in power longer than they should have been, but ultimately he led the Army to victory, and was responsible for the final battles that laid waste to the Confederacy and led to the end of the war.

He was also a technical general, who understood the need for supplies as much as the need for victory on the battlefield. He knew the South's army was undersupplied and desperate for provisions, and so, when a general was victorious, he ordered them to…...

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Reference

McPhearson, J.M. (2001). Ordeal by fire: The Civil War and reconstruction. New York: McGraw Hill.

Sherman's March To The Sea
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William Tecumseh Sherman who was also known as General Sherman (born on 8 February, 1820 in Lancaster-Ohio) that is nearby Hocking iver shore. By profession, his father was a lawyer and worked at Ohio Supreme Court. At the age of nine, his father died. A family friend raised him.

When he was 16 years old, Ewing appointed him as a cadet in U.S. military academy at the West Point. After his graduation, he entered into the army as second lieutenant in 1840. Sherman was promoted to Captain due to his services. He was not only an American soldier, but also a businessman, an author and an educator.…...

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Clarke & Dwight, L. (1969). William Tecumseh Sherman: Gold Rush Banker. California Historical Society.

Eicher, J.H. & Eicher, D.J. (2001). Civil War High Commands. Stanford University Press.

Inscoe, J. (2011). The Civil War in Georgia: A New Georgia Encyclopaedia Companion. University of Georgia Press.

Rhodes, J.F. (1901). Sherman's March to the Sea. The American Historical Review, 6(3), 466-474.

Even "Porter Alexander, Lee's ordnance chief and one of the most perceptive contemporary observers of Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia, called his decision to stand at Antietam 'the greatest military blunder that Gen. Lee ever made'" (Owens 2004). Historians are divided as to the real purpose behind the Maryland campaign, which seems like an "isolated maneuver, another manifestation of Lee's innate aggressiveness as a commander. Some have gone so far as to suggest that Lee's forays into Union territory were undertaken primarily to maintain his claim on scarce Confederate resources that might have been used to greater strategic purpose in the est" (Owens 2004).
hether a demoralization strategy or an effort merely to show Confederate aggression, the focus on Lee in most historians' analysis shows how Lee dominated this conflict, and defined the terms of the battle. Thus, even if Lee acted unwisely, he was clearly 'in control,'…...

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The beginning of the American Civil War. (2009). BBC. Retrieved February 22, 2009.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A3245140 

Bleeding Kansas 1853-1861. (2009). Africans in America. PBS. Retrieved February 22, 2009.  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2952.html 

Faust, Patricia. (2005, March 26). The Anaconda Plan. Historical Times Encyclopedia of the Civil War. Retrieved from Strategy and Tactics: Civil War Home on February 22, 2005 at  http://www.civilwarhome.com/anacondaplan.htm 

Owens, Mackubin T. (2004, September). September 17, 1862: High tide of the Confederacy?

" In it, he showed a poor boy and a rich boy (the Prince), who exchanged places and found that they each preferred to live in the life to which they had been born. Still, each learned from the other's life and the outcome was not what the Sunday School books had all written. The rich Prince "lived only a few years," but he lived them worthily.
In conclusion, Mark Twain was saying in his Story of the Good Little Boy, it is in a situation where one might expect to find reward that one finds punishment, and it is not how one's religion wants one to live that one finds reward and satisfaction. Also, the authorities in his Story did not exercise justice, so this was another disappointment for the reader, again coming to the conclusion that religion was not the answer to life's problems. It did no good for…...

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Library of Congrress. "America's Story from America's Library." Website at: http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/gilded.

PBS, "Andrew Carnegie: The Gilded Age." Website at  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/gildedage.html .

Twain, Mark. "Poor Little Stephen Girard," in Carleton's Popular Readings, Anna Randall-Diehl, ed., New York, 1879, 183-84.

Twain, Mark. The Gilded Age. New York: Classic Literature Library. 1873.

Grant and Lee: A Study in Contracts
Why do the differences between Grant and Lee receive more extended treatment than the similarities? Why are the similarities discussed last?

The United States, at Appomattox, had just suffered a profound rend in its history because of the Civil War, culturally and personally. For the duration of the war, the nation's regional and political differences rather than its similarities had come to the forefront. The personages, political views, and upbringings of Grant and Lee are used to emphasize this, as "they were two strong men these oddly different generals, and they represented the strengths of two conflicting currents that through them, had come into final collision. As North and South was in contrast, so the generals at the head of the army represented this contrast. But ultimately, these generals were forced to come to peace, and thus their similarities are discussed at the end, in…...

However, even Lee's most ardent apologists cannot ignore the very simple fact that Grant emerged the victor, Lee the loser in the great, final battle. The war was always the Union's to lose, and according to one historian "once the timid McClellan, the clumsy Hooker and Burnsides, and the dilatory Meade had passed," from command of the Union Army, the Confederacy "found itself up against Ulysses S. Grant, and its ultimate destruction was only a matter of time. 'Unconditional Surrender' Grant was both fearless and tenacious, and was the first Union commander to match his tactics with his opportunities. Once engaged by this dour mastermind, Lee's army could do little against his bulldog grip.

" the influx of new men, including African-American forces after the Emancipation Proclamation (as chronicled in the film Glory) sealed the Confederacy's doom.

However, to call Grant 'dour' is to deny his brilliance -- although less apt to…...

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"Confederate General Robert E. Lee." American Civil War. Accessed November 19, 2010 at  http://americancivilwar.com/south/lee.html 

"Grant's greatest battles." PBS. Accessed November 19, 2010 at  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/grant/peopleevents/e_general.html 

"People & Events: General Robert E. Lee, 1807-1870." PBS. Accessed November 19, 2010 at  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/grant/peopleevents/p_lee.html 

Puffer, Raymond. "Damage them all you can; Robert E. Lee's army of northern