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From Frontier Soldier to Peacemaking President

by | Apr 30, 2018 | Features & Gunfights

allen polt painting of ulysses s grant
On March 4, 1869, a rather unlikely candidate took his oath of office as the eighteenth president of the United States. The image of Ulysses S. Grant as a cigar chomping, rumpled Union general whose dogged determination helped win the Civil War and gained him two turbulent terms as commander in chief has basis in fact. But


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