The Death of Ulysses S. Grant

from Same Day, Different Century · host Zach Ipsen

On July 23, 1885, Ulysses S. Grant died at a mountain cottage in New York, shortly after finishing the memoirs he wrote to keep his family out of poverty. He had won the Civil War and served two terms as president. Then a fraudulent brokerage firm took his fortune and throat cancer took his voice. Working in pencil against the clock, the general who once demanded unconditional surrender produced one of the finest books ever written by a soldier. Send me a text!Support the show

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