General Grant
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Character Key:
Display Name:
General Grant
Sort Name:
Grant, General Ulysses S.
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Middle Class
Rank:
Peripheral
Vitality:
Dead
Occupation:
Armed Forces
Specific Job:
Union Officer
First Mentioned:
Date of Birth:
Saturday, April 27, 1822
Origin:
Ohio
Other Texts:
Biography:
In time the commander-in-chief of the Union Army and then President of the U.S., Ulysses S. Grant was in the early 1860s in charge of the campaign against Mississippi, especially Vicksburg. Military supplies being stored in Jefferson as part of that campaign provoke the Confederate cavalry raid in which Hightower's grandfather dies (476).
Ontological Status:
Historical/Real
Individual or Group:
Individual
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