General Grant National Monument

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 General Grant National Monument
 
Location: 122nd St. at Riverside Dr., New York

This memorial to Ulysses S. Grant, victorious Union commander of the Civil War, includes the tomb of General Grant and his wife, Julia Dent Grant. A West Point graduate, Grant served in the Mexican War and at various frontier posts, before rapidly rising through the ranks during the Civil War. Grant‘s tenacity and boldness led to victories in the Battles of Vicksburg and Chattanooga and Robert E. Lee‘s surrender at Appomattox, scenes depicted by mosaics in the tomb. In 1866 Congress awarded Grant his fourth star making him the first full Ge...


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