1) Many Republicans wanted to nominate former President Ulysses Grant.

2) Many Republicans wanted to nominate former President Ulysses Grant. Grant had been out of office 4 years. People seemed to have forgotten the political problems that shook his administration.

3) Also on July 4, 1863, General Ulysses Grant was able to force the surrender of the besieged city of Vicksburg, Mississippi.

4) When Ulysses Grant told a reporter he liked cigars, well - wishers sent him more than 20, 000.

5) Ulysses Grant was elected president of the United States in eighteen sixty-eight.

6) The victory at Vicksburg went to General Ulysses Grant. He was named commander of all Union armies in the west. Then he was sent to Chattanooga, Tennessee.

7) America's eighteenth president, Ulysses Grant, was elected to his second term in eighteen seventy-two.

8) All of the other Union generals generals knew Ulysses Grant.

9) All of the other Union generals knew Ulysses Grant. Few had any faith in his abilities. They were sure he would always fail.

10) On March fourth, eighteen sixty-nine, Ulysses Grant traveled to Washington for his inauguration as the eighteenth president of the United States.

11) Ulysses Grant and his Republican successors put repayment of the Civil War debt at the top of their priorities list.

12) Still, the years of poverty and failure affected Ulysses Grant.

13) Only after this ordeal did he begin his long and fruitful association with Ulysses Grant.

14) For a twenty, you should look for the picture of Andrew Jackson, and on a fifty-dollar bill, you'll see a picture of Ulysses Grant.

15) The only general who seemed able to win victories was Ulysses Grant.

16) Most governors had the authority and every President since Ulysses Grant in 1869 had sought it.

17) On April ninth, eighteen sixty-five, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union General Ulysses Grant. Within weeks, the Civil War would be over.

18) One of the Union generals in the area was Ulysses Grant.

19) They had no similar exposure to, say,(http:///ulysses grant.html) slave-owner Thomas Jefferson or civil war general Ulysses Grant.

20) So Brown felt extraordinary pride one day last summer as he stood before a statue of Ulysses Grant in the Capitol Rotunda1 in Washington.

21) but he is also recognized as a great strategist, a forceful leader, and--together with Ulysses Grant --the ablest Union general of the war.

22) This week in our series, we talk about the first term of President Ulysses Grant.