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Grant's Tomb - New York City, New York
Sited south of Harlem and west of Morningside Heights and Columbia University is the tomb of Ulysses S. Grant. (b. 1822 Point Pleasant, Ohio – d. Mt. McGregor, New York, 1885) The tomb is a fitting memorial to a great American general and president. John Hemenway Duncan designed the tomb, beginning in 1897. Grant had requested that he be buried in St. Louis, Galena, IL, or New York City, rather than Washington DC. The monument was never really finished. The granite for the exterior is from Maine and was quarried by the New Hampshire Granite Company. Grant's Tomb is now run by the U.S. Park Service. The monument, like President Grant himself, has had its share of controversy. John Hemenway Duncan Duncan's Knox Hat Building (1901-02) still stands at the southwest corner of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street in the Bryant Park area. (Knox was one of the best-known manufacturers of men's hats in America, a very profitable business at the time. Knox' customers included Enrico Caruso, Al Smith, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and John D. Rockefeller.) Duncan was a member of the Architectural League. Ulysses S. Grant (b. 1822 Point Pleasant, Ohio – d. Mount McGregor, NY 1885)  won the Civil War as the commander of the Union Army and served as President of the United States. He was the son of a tanner. Grant went to West Point against his will and graduated in the middle of his class. In the Mexican War, he fought under General Zachary Taylor. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Grant was working in his father's leather store in Galena, Illinois. He was appointed by the Governor to command an undisciplined volunteer regiment. In the Civil War at Shiloh, Grant fought a bloody battle and did poorly. President Lincoln deflected demands for Grant's removal by saying, 'I can't spare this man — he fights.' For his next engagement, Grant fought and won the key city on the Mississippi — Vicksburg. His victory cut the Confederacy in two. Then he broke the Confederate hold on Chattanooga. Lincoln appointed him General-in-Chief in March 1864. Grant directed Sherman to drive through the South while he, with the Army of the Potomac, pinned down General Robert E. Lee's Army. On April 9, 1865, at Appomattox Court House, Lee surrendered. Grant wrote out generous terms of surrender that would prevent treason trials. As President, Grant brought part of his Army staff to the White House. Grant was honest, but his administration was corrupt. There were federal patronage scandals in New York's Customs House. His brother-in-law was involved with speculators Jay Gould and James Fisk, who attempted to corner the gold market. Grant's administration had a reputation for criminality. Grant drank heavily, as always. In his 1872 reelection campaign, Grant was attacked by liberal Republican reformers. He called them 'narrow-headed men,' their eyes so close together that 'they can look out of the same gimlet hole without winking.' Grant's friends in the Republican Party came to be known as 'the Old Guard.' Grant allowed the bitterly resented Radical Reconstruction to run its course in the South. He backed it up with military force when necessary. It was a disorganized mess. He achieved success when he established Yellowstone National Park. In retirement, Grant invested in a Wall Street financial firm, run in part run by his son, which went famously and scandalously bankrupt. Grant was financially wiped out. Desperate for money, he wrote his memoirs, which earned his family the then astronomical sum of $450,000, but he died of cancer just days after finishing them. His tomb is a national monument in New York City. |