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Grant and Buckner: Three Conversations

Posted on February 5, 2018 by Feather Schwartz Foster

U.S. Grant and S.B. Buckner were cadets at West Point. Cadets Grant and Buckner Ulysses S. Grant, class of 1843, and Simon Bolivar Buckner, class of 1844, were both midwesterners of middle-class standing both financially and academically. West Point classes … Continue reading →

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The Dying General: Grant’s Final Campaign

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Feather Schwartz Foster

   Ulysses S. Grant was unquestionably a great and able general, but he was no businessman. The General’s Last Hurrah When Ulysses S. Grant retired from two terms as President of the United States in early 1877, he was the … Continue reading →

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