Episode #178: Ulysses Grant #3: Vagabond Years (1848-1861)

Ulysses Grant #3: Vagabond Years (1848-1861); Topics covered include: Marries Julia Dent, initial post-war military assignments, crosses Panama, Fort Vancouver, misses his family (now with two children), begins drinking, assigned Fort Humboldt, caught under the influence on duty, resigns commission, returns to St. Louis, fails at every business venture, frees the lone slave he had been gifted, returns home to Illinois to work for father's business, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, election of 1860, Southern states secede, Civil War, and agrees to enlist

Key people: Julia (Dent) Grant, Fred Grant, Ulysses ("Buck") Grant, Robert Buchanan, William Jones, Ellen ("Nellie") Grant, Jesse Grant (son), Jesse Grant (father), Simpson Grant, Orville Grant, James Buchanan, and Abraham Lincoln

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