Ulysses S Grant

Do Presidents pay fines like everyone else? — Americans are probably a little wary of Presidents having trouble with the law and impeachment. It’s not a place we want to see our elected leaders, but it isn’t unique to the modern-day either. In fact, if you go back to the Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant, you’ll find a…

He took upon his everyman’s shoulders ultimate responsibility for saving our Nation, and he delivered — leaving us responsible for redeeming America’s promise of liberty. Culpeper should be a national shrine. From March to May 1864, Ulysses S. Grant made his head­quarters in Cul­peper, Virginia, and it was from there…

Be sure to follow me on Twitter: @TheoryVirtus In March of 1877, Ulysses S. Grant left the presidency with a sullied reputation. It was a tough pill to swallow for a man who emerged from the ruins of civil war with a prestige and renown that appeared beyond reproach to…

POTUS In Poetry Collection # 18 — By Faye Collum Fairley Our eighteenth president born in 1822 Mom was Hannah, dad was Jesse Root. His father was a tanner; that was his skill Hiram wanted the military; it was his will. In the military academy at age seventeen, This is where he gained the S in his…

✍🏾 All plans are in higher hands Today's Healthy-Happy-H@ly Do List . . . 🌟Helping 🫂 🌟Inviting 🫂 🌟Supporting🫂 A Story: "The mind calculates the way, but all plans are in higher hands." I think you can surmise the gist of today's verse in this. Do what we may, destiny…

Cedar Mountain. Second Manassas. Antietam. Fredericksburg. Chancellorsville. Gettysburg. The Wilderness. Spotsylvania Court House. Cold Harbor. Assault on Petersburg. These battles are well-known to anyone who has studied the American Civil War. Each of these battles is famous (or infamous) for different reasons. Cedar Mountain is known for two firsts: the…

The Presidential election of 1872 featured two candidates whose names are still familiar to us today. One has his face on the Fifty Dollar Bill, the other is remembered for a phrase he may never have actually uttered. Ulysses S. Grant was running for reelection. He had won the Civil…

This is the latest in a series of posts about the last weeks in the life of Ulysses S. Grant, as reported in The Morning Star of Glens Falls. July 22, 1885 at Mount McGregor, where Ulysses S. Grant was dying from throat cancer, “was a day of watching and…