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284 INDEX Grant, Frederick Dent, iii. 104-106. Grant, Julia Dent, iii. 27, 103-104. GRANT, ULYSSES S. (18th President), ii. 264, 279-280, 281 ; Lincoln s let ter to, 282; account of family and boyhood of, iii. 23; career at West Point, 23-24; service in Mexican war, 24-26; stationed in California and the northwest, 27 ; resigns com mission and unsuccessfully engages in business, 27-28; made captain of volunteer company at beginning of Civil War, 28; appointed colonel of 21st Illinois regiment of infantry, 28-29; appointed brigadier-general of volunteers, 29 ; Paducah procla mation, 30; advances against and engages the enemy along the Missis sippi, 30-31; captures Forts Henry and Donelson, 31-33; made a major-general but suffers a repri mand and temporary setback, 33 34; defeats Confederate army at Shiloh, 34-35; in command of the Department of the Tennessee, 36; battles of luka and Corinth, 36; movement looking to capture of Vicksburg, 37 ff. ; capture of Vicks- burg and promotion to major-gen eral in regular army, 42-43; terms granted Pemberton s army, "un conditional surrender," 43; in com mand of military division of the Mississippi, 44; made lieutenant- general and commander-in-chief of armies, ii. 281, iii. 45-46; vigorous operations against southern forces, ii. 282 ff., iii. 46 ff.; historic des patch, "I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer," 47; meeting at City Point with Lincoln, Sherman, and Admiral Porter (March, 1865), 58; final campaign, 58-62; receives Lee s surrender, ii. 291, iii. 62-63; narrow escape from assassination, 64 ; ova tions and honors to, 64-65; sends Sheridan to the Kio Grande, 65; saves Lee and other southern officers from punishment for treason, 65- 66; estrangement from Johnson, 67; reorganization of army, 67; grade of general created for, 67, 231; clash of authority between Johnson and, 67-68; receives sup port of congress, 68-69; relations with General Hancock, 69; contest between Johnson and, over suspen sion of Secretary Stan ton, 69-70; letter to Johnson quoted, 70; nom inated for presidency, 71; use of famous phrase, Let us have peace, 71; electoral vote cast for, 71; summing-up of his characteristics as a successful soldier, 71-73; polit ical proclivities, 73; attitude in re gard to payment of public debt, 74; civilization and Christianization of the Indians, 75; recommends and supports adoption of 15th amend ment to constitution, 75-76; urges annexation of Santo Domingo, 76- 77; empowered by Enforcement act to protect freedmen against out rages, 78; refunding of national debt, 78-79; urges on congress necessity of bxiilding up merchant marine, 79; action on civil service reform, 79-80; represses fresh dis orders in southern states and sus pends writ of habeas corpus in North and South Carolina, 81; important measures of foreign policy, including treaty of Washing ton, 82-84; re-election in 1872, 85; personal abuse of, during canvass, 85; continued dignified foreign policy, 86; settlement of political disturbances and outrages in the south, 86-88; firm course in regard to Inflation bill of 1874, 88-89; views on specie payment, resulting in passage of Resumption act (1875), 89-90; prosecution of whiskey revenue frauds, 90; the order, "Let no guilty man escape," 90; resolutions and speech on sub ject of education, 91; preserves order during political excitement over Hayes-Tilden dispute, 92; list of members of cabinet, 92-93; resume of results of administration, 93; ability displayed as an admin istrator, 93-94 ; characteristics, 94- 95 ; tour of the world upon retiring from presidency, 95-97; attempted nomination of, for presidency in 1880, 98; removes home from Galena to New York, 98; engages in banking business with disastrous results, 99; "Century" articles by, 99-100; writes his "Memoirs," 100; illness and death from cancer of the tongue, 100-101; tomb of, and statues, 101-102; portraits and bust, 102; bibliography, 102-103; wife and children, 103-106; Gar- fiexd and Elaine leaders in opposi tion to third term for, 183-184. Grant, Ulysses S., Jr., iii. 104. Grant, Ulysses S., 3d, iii. 106. Gray, Horace, commissioned justice of supreme court, iii. 229. Grayson, William, i. 178, 199, 200.