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Trivia about grant

  • Heavy casualties at Shiloh led to calls for his firing, but Lincoln said, "I can't spare this man; he fights"
  • Princess Julia Cantacuzene, a granddaughter of this president & Civil War general died in 1975 at the age of 99
  • If I'd been there in 1862, I'd have given a drink to this general who beat the rebels at Shiloh
  • Alcohol may have contributed to his leaving the army in the 1850s; he came back fighting in the 1860s
  • As you might expect, Ulysses is the seat of this "Presidential" county
  • Handsome Hugh of "Notting Hill"(5)
  • Gen. Buckner unconditionally surrendered Fort Donelson to this Union general
  • He's the only Civil War general currently depicted on U.S. money
  • He commanded all the Union armies
  • It's a formal gift of funds given by, for example, a government to a scientist to "cary" on with research
  • He accepted Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House
  • On graduating from West Point in 1843, he hoped to become a math teacher
  • To confer, as permission or a wish
  • This president ran for reelection in 1872 against fellow Republican Horace Greeley, who was endorsed by the Democrats
  • In 1873 this U.S. president signed a bill banning anything obscene, lewd or lascivious from the mails
  • Maryville Wood, an Iowa farmer, gave this name to his artistically gifted son
  • Kevin Kline in "Wild Wild West"
  • Would Cary with this last name have seemed as suave if he'd gained fame as Archibald Leach?
  • Mr. "unconditional surrender" of the Civil War
  • The first Surgeon General, known as Supervising Surgeon then, was named in 1871 during this president's term
  • Married in 1848:Julysses
  • During his administration, Custer made his last stand
  • 1885 "last words" from this president: "Bury me next to my wife. But nothing too fancy"
  • Ironically, the statue of this president astride Cincinnatus looks toward the former home of Robert E. Lee
  • In 1860 he began working in his father's leather goods store in Galena, Ill.; a year later, he was in the Civil War
  • "Butcher from Galena"
  • NBA:Harvey & Horace
  • To allow