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Starting my next biography with Mt. Rainier in the background.
Get ready for some President Grant!
#Seattle #History #President #America #USA #Army #Rainier
Get ready for some President Grant!
#Seattle #History #President #America #USA #Army #Rainier
Just a few years before the Civil War, Grant was so poor he was peddling firewood on a St. Louis street corner in a faded army overcoat, trying to feed his family.
Ulysses S. Grant was actually named Hiram Ulysses Grant at birth, but when a congressman wrote his endorsement to attend West Point, he accidentally wrote “Ulysses S. Grant,” (Assuming S for Grant’s mother’s maiden name), and West Point refused to correct it.
