1869-1877

Wife - Julia Boggs Dent (1826-1902)

Vice President Schuyler Colfax (1869-1873)

Vice President Henry Wilson (1873-1877)

"Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what are we going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do."
--An uncharacteristic burst of temper from Grant when being reminded repeatedly of the powers of Robert E. Lee.

"I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent."
-- At the end of his second term (1877)

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