Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885) Eighteenth president of the United States of America, he was born at Point Pleasant, Ohio and died at New York; he graduated at West Point Military Academy, and participated to some point in the Mexican-American war. ... Shortly after Fort Summer, Grant enlisted as a colonel in an Illinois militia regiment. ... After the presidency he had no success financially; bankrupt and sick while laying in bed he dictated his Personal memoirs until four days before dying. ...

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To work out contracts that could last up to seven years just to get their own land but most of the time the workers died before they could have the chance to own their own land. ... Wilmot Proviso - The question or slavery burst into the public spotlight one summer. ...

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Her wound was fatal and her sex was disclosed but she refused to reveal her real name but as she lay dying she decided to disclose a telegram to her father in Brooklyn. ... I am content to die. ... In the summer of 1864, General Grant ordered all women to leave the camps and lines including Annie who had to leave the regiment. ...

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Major Anderson was running out of food in Fort Summers and requested for more supplies. ... Lincoln's eleven-year-old son, William died in 1862. ... Andrew Johnson was sworn in a president hours after Lincoln died. ... In 1871 her youngest son Thomas died of tuberculosis. ... She died in Springfield on 1882. ...

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This admiration lead to his invitation to the Catholic Second Plenary Council in Baltimore, which among other things commemorated the Catholic soldiers who died on both sides in the Civil War. ... With the peaceful ending of the Trent affair, those tensions died down and Lincoln's assassination almost four years later would have been pointless. ... Before, in the summer of '64, Booth had ideas of going beyond the Confederate mission of spy and sabotage and wanted to kidnap Lincoln and keep him as hostage for the return of all southern POWs. ...

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Our nation's past is often perceived as a glorious and monumental country. We are nurtured into believing that it was built by past presidents, politics, wars, and the life and values of the nation's elite. Ironically, we do not focus on social classes, economical conflicts, tensions between main...

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During the Civil War, Charles Summer pushed for the emancipation of the slaves and introduced the 13th Amendment to the Senate in 1864. ... A reliable friend of blacks, who had defended runaway slaves in court without fee and before dying, requested a burial in a black cemetery. ...

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