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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC01265.29 |
| From Archive Folder | Civil war loyalty pamphlets |
| Title | Speeches of General U.S. Grant, republican candidate for the eighteenth president of the United States, being extracts from speeches, letters, orders, military and state papers |
| Date | 1868 |
| Author | Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) (1822-1885) |
| Document Type | Pamphlet |
| Content Description | Published by the Union Republic Congressional Executive Committee. The extracts chosen vary in subject. Some of the topics included are acceptance of the Republican nomination, feelings toward slavery and military necessity, defeat and surrender of General Lee, reconstruction, General Sheridan's and Secretary Stanton's removals, and military control of Western steamboat traffic. |
| Subjects | Republican Party President Union General Election Politics Slavery African American History Military History Surrender Appomattox Reconstruction Union Forces Union General Impeachment Lincoln's Cabinet Government and Civics Steamboat Transportation Westward Expansion |
| People | Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) (1822-1885) Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891) Stanton, E. M. (Edwin McMasters) (1814-1869) |
| Place written | Washington, D.C. |
| Theme | Reconstruction; Government & Politics; Slavery & Abolition; African Americans; Government & Politics; Westward Expansion |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
| Additional Information | Grant was chosen as the Republican presidential candidate at the Republican National Convention in Chicago on May 20 1868 with no real opposition. In the general election that year, he won with a majority of 3,012,833 out of a total of 5,716,082 votes cast. He was the 18th (1869–1877) President of the United States and served two terms from March 4, 1869 to March 3, 1877. Grant's presidency was plagued with the suspicion of scandal, especially the Whiskey Ring fraud in which over $3 million in taxes were taken from the federal government. Orville E. Babcock, the private secretary to the President, was indicted as a member of the ring and escaped conviction only because of a presidential pardon. After the Whiskey ring, Grant's Secretary of War William W. Belknap was involved in an investigation which revealed that he had taken bribes in exchange for the sale of Native American trading posts. Although he was a celebrated general, Grant did not have the same success during his presidency. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |