Season 2, Episode 18-Ulysses Grant and Galena

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Season 2, Episode 18: Ulysses Grant and Galena

Ulysses Grant was a rambling man, moving all over with the US Army before (and after) becoming 18th President! Learn about Grant’s military career and turn to politics, his tumultuous term, his wife, Julia, and children, and his homes in Galena, St. Louis, and the Adirondacks!

Be sure to listen to Ulysses Grant’s “Visiting the Presidents” Episode from Season 1, “Ulysses Grant and Point Pleasant” on his birthplace!

Also, be sure to listen to Ulysses Grant’s “Visiting the Presidents” Episode from Season 3, “Ulysses Grant’s Tomb” on his gravesite!

Grant Home in Galena, Illinois, from U.S. Grant State Historic Sites.

Galena and US Grant Museum official site.

Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site in St. Louis from National Park Service.

Ulysses S Grant Historic Site from NPS.

Ulysses Grant National Historic Site from Missouri National Parks.

Julia and Ulysses Grant Home Detroit site.

The Lost U.S Grant House (NYC) from Daytonian in Manhattan.

U.S. Grant Cottage National Historic Landmark site.

From My August 2021 Visit to Galena!

Grant Home in Galena
At the Grant Home
Grant Bible on table in Library
Library
Ulysses and Julia Grant
Parlor
Parlor
Parlor finery
Dining room
Heading upstairs
Grant Bedroom
Exterior of the Galena home.

From My May 2016 Visit to St. Louis!

White Haven
Back view
Dressing as US Grant.

From My July 2021 Visit to Grant’s Cottage!

Grant and me
At the Cottage
Grant belongings
Medicine cabinet
Cocaine water
Where Grant finished his memoirs
The bed where Grant died
Grant’s funeral flowers and death mask
It’s a vibe
Grant Cottage
At Grant’s Cottage
Feels like you’re in a Claritin ad
Upstate New York to Vermont
Grant’s last view
Julia and Ulysses Grant, from the White House Historical Association.
Historical Images of White Haven
Historic images of the Galena home.
The Grant NYC home, from Daytonian in Manhattan.
Postcards from Grant Cottage.

Ulysses Grant Home: 500 Bouthilier Street, Galena, Illinois.

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Recommended Reading for Ulysses Grant

Ron Chernow, Grant.
Ulysses Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant.
H.W. Brands, The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant In War and Peace.
Ronald White, American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S Grant.

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