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∙ 10y agoGeneral Grant became Presid ent in 1868. He was not a politician which is why his presidency was marred with corruption and other problems. His main flaw was that he treated the presidency like a military group. Meaning he trusted his cabinet who were a bunch of snakes.
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∙ 8y agoGeneral US Grant was elected to the US presidency as a Republican. His presidency had many positive highlights and also some low points. There was a good deal of corruption. The idea that corruption was there because he had no political experience, or that there was corruption because he was not a politician is not logical. Many are of the opinion that it is politicians who create corruption.
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∙ 10y agoAfter the US Civil War many Northerners considered General Ulysses S. Grant the military hero of the Union. Grant ran on the Republican ticket in the 1868 Presidential elections.
Grant was a Civil War General and president.
Ullyses S. Grant was the general of the Northern armies (Union) who went on to become president
The civil war general president was Ulysses Grant. He served as the US commander and general of the Union armies. He later on became the 18th US president.
ulyesses s grant and later on he became president
Abraham Lincoln for the Union; Jefferson Davis for the Confederacy
Grant was a Civil War General and president.
He was a president in the USA and he was a general for the Union Army during the Civil War.
Ulysses S Grant was the Union General during the Civil War and was elected as the 18th Commander-in-Chief in 1868 XxChocolate_BunnyxX
The Commander In Chief of the Union army during the Civil War was President Abraham Lincoln; the ranking general in the field was Ulysses S. Grant.
Abraham Lincoln was the President of the United States, or Union, during the US Civil War.
Ullyses S. Grant was the general of the Northern armies (Union) who went on to become president
He was a great general on the Union side in the Civil War, as well as the 18th president of the US.
General Grant
His name was Ulysses S. Grant.
The civil war general president was Ulysses Grant. He served as the US commander and general of the Union armies. He later on became the 18th US president.
President Lincoln was the president during the time of the Civil War. However, the general for the Confederate Army (the south) was Robert E. Lee. THe general for the Union (the north) was Ulysses S. Grant (later to become president)Abraham Lincoln
General Philip Sheridan fought as a Union general in the American Civil War