President U.S. Grant's Birthplace, Boyhood Home, and Schoolhouse.
This adventure takes us to Point Pleasant and Georgetown, Ohio. We first visit the birthplace of Ulysses S. Grant, our eighteenth President. We begin in Point Pleasant, where we experience a tour of the one room home of his birth. Then we travel to neighboring Georgetown and visit President Grant's boyhood home and his schoolhouse. Along the way, we are discover monuments dedicated to this famed Commanding General known for his magnanimous oversight during the end of the Civil War.
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ULYSSES S. GRANT'S BOYHOOD HOME!
We visited the boyhood home of, General/President Ulysses S. Grant, in Georgetown, Ohio. We were lucky to get a private tour of the home, from Mrs. Nancy Purdy, and that tour is here in this video! Grant spent his youth in this house, until he left for West Point. His father owned, and operated a tannery across the street from the house.
Ulysses S Grant Boyhood Home
The boyhood home of our 18th President is in Georgetown Ohio, a short drive from Cincinnati.
US Grant Boyhood Home
The Ohio Historical Society restored Ulysses S Grant's boyhood home beginning the fall of 2012. The person commissioned to do the paper hanging had an idea to describe the work that went into the restoration. This video is the result of that idea.
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New tourism trail highlights historical sites of presidents from Ohio
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - There are many tourism trails throughout Ohio -- from antiques to doughnuts. Now, you can add the Ohio Presidential Trail to the list of things to do.
The new trail highlights 13 historical places around the Buckeye State you can visit to learn about the commanders-in-chief with Ohio roots.
Seven presidents were born in Ohio, and an eighth -- William Henry Harrison -- spent most of his life in Ohio. His tomb in North Bend is one of the four sites right here in our part of the state.
There is also both William Howard Taft and Ulysses S. Grant's boyhood homes as well as Grant's schoolhouse in Georgetown.
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Born April 27, 1822, Hiram Ulysses Grant, as he was named, grew up in Georgetown, Ohio. His childhood was, he recalled, an uneventful one. He went to school, did chores, ice skated, fished, and rode horses, like other children on the American frontier. Grant's father, Jesse Root Grant, owned a tannery, but his son hated the horrible stench and the filth of the family business. From a very young age, Hiram showed a remarkable talent for working with horses. His father allowed him to earn his keep by plowing, driving teams to haul wood, and performing other chores.
Jesse Grant realized early on that Hiram would never make it as a businessman. In 1839 Jesse sent the boy to the United States Military Academy at West Point, ignoring the fact that the small, skinny 17-year-old did not want to go. Upon his arrival at West Point, Grant discovered that there was no one by his name listed as a new cadet. But there was a U. S. Grant on the list. Rather than risk refusal, young Grant changed his name on the spot. Ulysses S. Grant was born.
U. S. Grant showed little promise at West Point. Although relatively well educated, he studied little. He stood out in mathematics and horsemanship, which had always been his best subjects, as well as in art. He earned his lowest marks in French. Ulysses graduated 21st out of 39 cadets in his class. Like many graduates, he planned to resign from the military after serving his tour of duty.
After graduation, Grant was stationed in St. Louis, Missouri. There, he visited a West Point roommate, Frederick Dent. Soon, Grant began courting Julia Dent, Fred's sister. The two quickly fell in love. In 1844 Julia accepted Ulysses' marriage proposal. But before they could marry, Ulysses went off to war for the first time.
In later years, Grant wrote that the Mexican War was one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. Officially, he served as a quartermaster, efficiently controlling the movement of supplies. But he also saw action, and showed bravery under fire. Grant also took the opportunity to study generals Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor carefully, learning from their successes and their failures.
For a time after the war, Grant, his wife, and their firstborn son, Fred, enjoyed happiness. But in 1852, when Ulysses was transferred to Fort Vancouver in what is now Washington State, trouble began. He missed Julia and their two young sons, one of which he had never seen. Grant lost money in business ventures. He grew despondent and began to drink. A transfer to a post in California did little to raise his spirits. On April 11, 1854, Grant resigned from the Army.
Ulysses moved with his family to Missouri, and began to farm land given to him by Julia's father. Grant called the farm Hardscrabble, a name that fit. He built a modest house there, planted potatoes, corn, and oats, and struggled to survive. By 1857, after several bad years, the farm had failed. Grant moved to St. Louis, where he failed at several pursuits. Ulysses then moved his family to Galena, Illinois, where he took a job as a clerk in his father's leather goods shop.
More to come when we talk about the rest of Grant's life in a future video!
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Ulysses S. Grant Was A Victor, Not a Butcher (2004)
Hiram Ulysses Grant was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio, on April 27, 1822, to Jesse Root Grant, a tanner and merchant, and Hannah Grant (née Simpson). About the book:
His ancestors Matthew and Priscilla Grant arrived aboard the Mary and John at Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. Grant's great-grandfather fought in the French and Indian War, and his grandfather, Noah, served in the American Revolution at Bunker Hill. Afterward, Noah settled in Pennsylvania and married Rachel Kelley, the daughter of an Irish pioneer. Their son Jesse (Ulysses's father) was a Whig Party supporter and abolitionist.
Jesse Grant moved to Point Pleasant in 1820 and found work as a foreman in a tannery. He soon met his future wife, Hannah, and the two were married on June 24, 1821. Ten months later Hannah gave birth to their first child, a son. At a family gathering several weeks later the boy's name, Ulysses, was drawn from ballots placed in a hat. Wanting to honor his father-in-law, Jesse declared the boy to be Hiram Ulysses, though he would always refer to him as Ulysses.
In 1823, the family moved to the village of Georgetown, Ohio, where five more siblings were born: Simpson, Clara, Orvil, Jennie, and Mary. At the age of five, young Grant began his formal education, starting at a subscription school and later was enrolled in two private schools. In the winter of 1836–1837, Grant was a student at Maysville Seminary, and in the autumn of 1838 he attended John Rankin's academy. In his youth, Grant developed an unusual ability to ride, work with, and control horses. Expressing a strong dislike for the tannery, Grant's father instead put this ability to use giving Ulysses work driving wagon loads of supplies and transporting people. Unlike his siblings, Grant was not forced to attend church by his Methodist parents. For the rest of his life, he prayed privately and never officially joined any denomination. To others, including late in life, his own son, Grant appeared to be an agnostic. He inherited some of Hannah's Methodist piety and quiet nature while adopting his father's Whig political inclinations.
When Grant had returned to America from his costly world tour, he had depleted most of his savings and needed to earn money and find a new home. Wealthy friends bought him a home on Manhattan's Upper East Side, and to make an income, Grant, Jay Gould, and former Mexican Finance Secretary Matías Romero chartered the Mexican Southern Railroad, with plans to build a railroad from Oaxaca to Mexico City. Grant urged Chester A. Arthur, who had succeeded Garfield as president in 1881, to negotiate a free trade treaty with Mexico. Arthur and the Mexican government agreed, but the United States Senate rejected the treaty in 1883. The railroad was similarly unsuccessful, falling into bankruptcy the following year.
At the same time, Grant's son Ulysses Jr. had opened a Wall Street brokerage house with Ferdinand Ward. Ward was regarded as a rising star and the firm, Grant & Ward, was initially successful. In 1883, Grant joined the firm and invested $100,000 of his own money. To encourage investment, Ward paid investors abnormally high interest, by pledging the company's securities on multiple loans in a process called rehypothecation. Ward, in collusion with banker James D. Fish, kept secret from bank examiners, retrieved the firm's securities from the company's bank vault. When the trades went bad, multiple loans came due, all backed up by the same collateral. Historians agree that Grant was likely unaware of Ward's intentions, but it is unclear how much Buck Grant knew. In May 1884, enough investments went bad to convince Ward that the firm would soon be bankrupt. Ward told Grant of the impending failure, but assured Grant that this was a temporary shortfall. Grant approached businessman William Henry Vanderbilt, who gave him a personal loan of $150,000. Grant invested the money in the firm, but it was not enough to save it from failure. Essentially penniless, but compelled by a sense of personal honor, he repaid what he could with his Civil War mementos and the sale or transfer of all other assets. Vanderbilt took title to Grant's home, although he allowed the Grants to continue to reside there, and pledged to donate the souvenirs to the federal government and insisted the debt had been paid in full. Grant was distraught over Ward's deception and asked privately how he could ever trust any human being again. In March 1885, as his health was failing, he testified against both Ward and Fish. Ward was convicted of fraud in October 1885, months after Grant's death, and served six and a half years in prison.
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Ulysses S Grant Facts
Ulysses Simpson Grant was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio on April 27, 1822. He was raised in Georgetown, Ohio by his father, Jesse Root Grant, and his mother, Hannah Simpson Grant. While growing up in Georgetown, Grant became a skilled horse handler, but in 1839, his parents decided that it would be best if he began to attend West Point Military Academy. At the academy, Grant was nicknamed Uncle Sam Grant, which stuck through his career. He graduated 21st in his class and his horsemanship, along with his math skills were recognized. After graduation, Grant was immediatly placed in the Jefferson Barracks which resided in St. Louis, Missouri and in 1846, the Mexican War began. Grant served in Zachary Taylor's and Winfield Scott's armies and by the end of the war, he was promoted to first lieutenant. In 1854, he resigned from the army to take up farming and raise his two sons. His farming ended unsuccessfully, and he was forced to sell his farm. During the next few years him and his wife, Julia Boggs Dent, had two more children. Grant was forced to rejoin the army in 1861, at the begining of the Civil War.
In 1861, Grant rejoined the military as a colonel of the 21st Illinois infantry, and even before his first battle, Grant was named Brigadier General by Elihu W ashburne. Washburne was a U.S. congressman from Galena, where Grant was previously stationed. In 1862, he gained permission to go on an offensive campaign, and soon after gained his first major victory at Fort Donelson, where he instituted Unconditional Surrender and later became known for that tactic. After his victory, he was promoted to Major General, a position he lost after losing a heavy amount of troops in the Battle of Shiloh. Halleck took away his army out of jealousy, but later that year, Grant gained it back when Halleck was called to Washington. Directly after Grant gained control of his army, he began advancing towards Vicksburg, Mississippi, the last confederate base on the Mississippi River. Vicksburg surrendered on July 4, 1863, which successfully cut the Confederacy in half.
In early 1864, Grant was promoted to Lieutenant General, one of the highest positions in the Union army. The final stages of the war had begun, and Grant's goal was to take out the most important General in the Confederate army. Grant's goal was to immobilize Robert E. Lee's army in Virginia, while William Sherman lead his army through Georgia, the heart of the Confederacy. Grant pinned Lee in Petersburg, Virginia and on April 9, 1865 Lee surrendered. Lee's surrender signified the end of the Confederates and though Grant had basically just won the Civil War, he believed it wasn't fought for a good cause. He was deeply saddened at the end of the War, because he thought that the Confederates were a Valiant Foe.
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Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site | Wikipedia audio article
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Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site
00:00:43 1 History
00:02:11 1.1 Slavery at White Haven
00:03:16 1.2 The setting
00:04:20 1.3 Early farm residents and slavery
00:05:17 1.4 Growing up as a slave
00:06:07 1.5 Household responsibilities
00:07:11 1.6 Tending the farm
00:08:11 1.7 Personal lives
00:09:00 1.8 Freedom
00:09:58 2 Post-Grant history
00:11:03 3 See also
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Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site is a 9.65-acre (3.91 ha) United States National Historic Site located 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Downtown St. Louis, Missouri within the municipality of Grantwood Village. The site, also known as White Haven, commemorates the life, military career, and Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant. Five historic structures are preserved at the site including the childhood home of Julia Dent Grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant.
White Haven was a plantation worked by slaves at the time Grant was married to his wife in 1848 and remained so until the end of the American Civil War.
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Ulysses S. Grant | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:04:11 1 Early life and education
00:06:51 2 Early military career and personal life
00:07:02 2.1 West Point and first assignment
00:10:21 2.2 Marriage and family
00:11:26 2.3 Mexican–American War
00:14:41 2.4 Post-war assignments
00:17:49 3 Civilian struggles and politics
00:21:32 4 Civil War
00:22:34 4.1 Early commands
00:24:26 4.2 Belmont, Forts Henry and Donelson
00:29:01 4.3 Shiloh and aftermath
00:34:26 4.4 Vicksburg campaign
00:38:36 4.5 Chattanooga and promotion
00:41:55 4.6 Overland Campaign and Petersburg Siege
00:47:16 4.7 Appomattox campaign, and victory
00:49:25 4.8 Lincoln's assassination
00:50:44 5 Commanding General
00:51:45 5.1 Reconstruction
00:53:22 5.2 Break from Johnson
00:56:27 5.3 Election of 1868
00:58:57 6 Presidency (1869–1877)
01:01:49 6.1 Later Reconstruction and civil rights
01:08:38 6.2 Native American iPeace/i policy
01:12:10 6.3 Foreign affairs
01:16:49 6.4 Gold standard and gold conspiracy
01:20:32 6.5 Election of 1872 and second term
01:24:05 6.6 Panic of 1873 and loss of Congress
01:27:15 6.7 Scandals and reform
01:34:34 6.8 Election of 1876
01:36:14 7 Post-presidency
01:36:24 7.1 World tour and diplomacy
01:38:08 7.2 Third term attempt
01:40:26 7.3 Business reversals, speculation and confidence men
01:43:33 7.4 Memoirs, pension, and death
01:49:48 8 Historical reputation
01:53:12 9 Memorials and presidential library
01:55:44 10 See also
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Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American soldier, politician, and international statesman who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. During the American Civil War, General Grant, with President Abraham Lincoln, led the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy. During the Reconstruction Era, President Grant led the Republicans in their efforts to remove the vestiges of Confederate nationalism, racism, and slavery.
From early childhood in Ohio, Grant was a skilled equestrian who had a talent for taming horses. He graduated from West Point in 1843 and served with distinction in the Mexican–American War. Upon his return, Grant married Julia Dent, and together they had four children. In 1854, Grant abruptly resigned from the army. He and his family struggled financially in civilian life for seven years. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Grant joined the Union Army and rapidly rose in rank to general. Grant was persistent in his pursuit of the Confederate enemy, winning major battles and gaining Union control of the Mississippi River. In March 1864, President Lincoln promoted Grant to Lieutenant General, a rank previously reserved for George Washington. For over a year Grant's Army of the Potomac fought the Army of Northern Virginia led by Robert E. Lee in the Overland Campaign and at Petersburg. On April 9, 1865, Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox, and the war ended.
On April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated. Grant continued his service under Lincoln's successor President Andrew Johnson and was promoted General of the Army in 1866. Disillusioned by Johnson's conservative approach to Reconstruction, Grant drifted toward the Radical Republicans. Elected the youngest 19th Century president in 1868, Grant stabilized the post-war national economy, created the Department of Justice, and prosecuted the Ku Klux Klan. He appointed African-Americans and Jewish-Americans to prominent federal offices. In 1871, Grant created the first Civil Service Commission. The Democrats and Liberal Republicans united behind Grant's opponent in the presidential election of 1872, but Grant was handily re-elected. Grant's new Peace Policy for Native Americans had both successes and failures. Grant's administration successfully resolv ...
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