General Grant

Character Key: 
Display Name: 
General Grant
Sort Name: 
Grant, Ulysses S.
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Upper Class
Rank: 
Peripheral
Vitality: 
Dead
Occupation: 
Armed Forces
Date of Birth: 
Monday, April 22, 1822
Origin: 
Ohio
Cause of Death: 
Disease
Biography: 

Ulysses S. Grant became the Commanding General of the U.S. Army during the Civil War. He later served as President from 1869-1877. The Grier narrator notes that his great-grandfather would holler "Grant," among other names, while dozing "in his chair under the mulberry in the yard or on the sunny end of the front gallery or in his corner by the hearth" (112).

Ontological Status: 
Historical/Real
Individual or Group: 
Individual
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