Sunday, September 13, 2020

18th President of the United States - Ulysses S. Grant







Ulysses S. Grant
18th President of the United States
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President Ulysses S. Grant won the first major Union victory of the Civil War. He was supposed to be at the theater with Lincoln the night of the assassination. His father was such an abolitionist that when Grant married Julia and she was given 2 slaves by her parents, his father told him to fuck off and refused to show up at the wedding. The “S” in his middle name didn’t stand for anything, and he was the one who beat the shit out of Robert E. Lee in the Civil War.  

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