Ulysses S. Grant
Written as “General Grant”
Ulysses S. Grant was the commanding general of the Union Army, who led it to victory in 1865, and later the 18th president of the United States (Wikipedia).
After Vicksburg, James wrote, “we have about twenty-five thousand of General Grant’s men in and around the city resting from the toils of war” (James, September 1, 1863). In Texas he served alongside “the old 13 Army Corps, General Grant’s old Corps”, and wrote of the Confederates, “I rather think Grant will use them up this summer” (James, April 13, 1864). The men of the 13th “fought under him at Vicksburg and think he can’t be beat” (James, June 26, 1864); by September James recalled “when Grant was taking for Richmond by the way of the Rapidan” (James, September 3, 1864).