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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Grant, Ulysses Simpson (search)
it until he signed the articles of capitulation at Appomattox Court-house, April 9, 1865. In 1866 he was promoted to general of the United States army. After the war Grant fixed his headquarters at Washington. When President Johnson suspended Stanton from the office of Secretary of War, Grant was put in his place ad interim. Stanton was reinstated by the Senate, Jan. 14, 1868. In 1868, Grant was elected Ulysses S. Grant. President of the United States by the Republican party, and was re-Stanton was reinstated by the Senate, Jan. 14, 1868. In 1868, Grant was elected Ulysses S. Grant. President of the United States by the Republican party, and was re-elected in 1872. He retired from the office March 4, 1877, and soon afterwards made a journey around the world, receiving great honors everywhere. Towards the close of his life he was financially ruined by an unprincipled sharper. Congress created him a general on the retired list; and, to make further provision for his family, he began compiling Personal memoirs of U. S. Grant, a work that was completed shortly before his death, on Mount McGregor, N. Y., July 23, 1885. His remains lie in
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hart, Albert Bushnell 1854- (search)
d Southwest of the United States. Starting at the salt inlets north of New Orleans, the rim of the basin runs through a low region till it strikes the southernmost extension of the Appalachian range, in northern Alabama; thence for many hundred miles, as far as western New York, it follows the chain of the mountains— Backbone Ridge, as it used to be called-and on its way it passes some of the hardest-fought battle-fields of the Civil War—Pittsburg Landing and Chattanooga to the west of it, Stanton and Winchester a little to the east. In places the edge of the shell is raised 6,500 feet above the sea; but when the boundary has once headed and confined the Alleghany River—at Lake Chautauqua—it sweeps westward and northward around the Great Lakes, which it all but drains, and which the new Chicago Canal actually does drain. West of Lake Superior, which it closely skirts, the line bends to the southward to give room for the Red River of the North, and beyond it rises steadily northwes
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Johnson, Andrew 1808- (search)
he cabinet of President Johnson resigned, the friends of Mr. Stanton, Secretary of War, urged him to retain the office, for i movement. The tenure of office act seemed to guarantee Mr. Stanton against removal. The Fortieth Congress met immediately ation of the tenure of office act he proceeded to remove Mr. Stanton from office. He first asked him, Aug. 5, to resign. Grtrain me to request your resignation as Secretary of War. Stanton replied, Grave public considerations constrain me to conti. As a dutiful soldier, he obeyed his commander-inchief. Stanton, knowing the firmness and incorruptible patriotism of Gran conduct. He gave unsatisfactory reasons for dismissing Stanton. On Jan. 13, 1868, the Senate reinstated Stanton, when GrStanton, when Grant quietly withdrew. The enraged President reproached the latter for yielding to the Senate, charged him with having brokener before the country. The President's conduct concerning Stanton led immediately to his impeachment. On Feb. 22, 1868, t