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Ulysses S. Grant[2] (born Hiram Ulysses Grant[3]) (April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American general and served as the 18th President of the United States from 1869–1877. He achieved widespread recognition following his appointment as General-in-Chief of the Union Army in the American Civil War.
Born in Appalachian Ohio, Grant entered the United States Military Academy at age 17. Three years after graduating, in 1846, Grant served as a Lieutenant in the Mexican-American War under Winfield Scott and future President Zachary Taylor. After the Mexican-American War concluded in 1848, Grant remained in the Army, but abruptly resigned in 1854. Struggling through the coming years as, among other occupations, a real estate agent, a laborer, and a county engineer, Grant decided to join the Northern effort in the Civil War.
Appointed Brigadier General of Volunteers in 1861 by President Abraham Lincoln, Grant claimed the first major Union victories of the war. Despite setbacks in the beginning of the war for the North, Grant's victory at the Battle of Vicksburg, in tandem with a Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg, allowed the North to gain the lead in the war. Named General-in-Chief of the Army in 1864, Grant implemented a coordinated strategy of simultaneous attacks aimed at destroying the South's ability to sustain its forces. In 1865, after mounting a successful war of attrition against his Confederate opponents, he accepted the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee at the Appomattox Court House.
Popular due to the Union victory in the Civil War, Grant ran for, and was elected, President of the United States as a Republican in 1868. Grant sought, and obtained, re-election in 1872. Grant was the first President to serve for two full terms since Andrew Jackson forty years before. As President, Grant led Radical Reconstruction and built a powerful patronage-based Republican Party in the South, furthering inflamed tensions between the North and former Confederates. His administration was often marred by scandal, sometimes the product of nepotism, and the neologism Grantism was coined to describe political corruption.
Grant left office in 1877, and in 1884, learned that he was suffering from terminal throat cancer. Unsuccessful in winning the nomination for a third term in 1880, left destitute by bad investments, and near the brink of death, Grant wrote his Memoirs, which were enormously successful among veterans, the public, and the critics. Two days after the completion of his memoirs, Grant died at the age of 63. Though in recent years his reputation as president has improved somewhat among scholars impressed by his support for civil rights for African Americans,[4][5] presidential experts typically rank Grant in the lowest quartile of U.S. presidents, primarily for his tolerance of corruption.
Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870), was a career United States Army officer, an engineer, and among the most celebrated generals in American history. Lee was the son of Major General Henry Lee III "Light Horse Harry" (1756–1818), Governor of Virginia, and his second wife, Anne Hill Carter (1773–1829). He was also related to Meriwether Lewis (1774 - 1809).[1]
A top graduate of West Point, Lee distinguished himself as an exceptional soldier in the U.S. Army for thirty-two years. He is best known for commanding the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War.
So what has all that got to do with a geocache in the middle of Central Queensland, not a lot, but if you look round in the area to the east, you may see the connection.
Its amazing, people look, but they dont see. You can count me in that group as well. While building my commute series, I though I had found every possible roadside plaque, grave, and marker for the trip. So it was with surprise that I saw this one. I thought it must have been new, but on checking, it had been there all along. So, I would guess that most travellers would not realise it is there.
The cache is very close to the marker. Just another stop on the long trip between east and west. Designed to get you out of the car, or in my case, off the bike, for a leg stretch, and to cut the fatigue. Virtually a drive by, there is plenty of parking available, with a bitumen parking spot on the side of the road, or more space off to the side of the road if its dry, and you have a vehicle with a bit of clearance.
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