The 18th President of the United States and Commanding General of the Union Army which won over the Confederacy. He worked closely with President Lincoln, but was at odds with Lincoln’s successor, President Andrew Johnson who did not share the same views on slavery as Lincoln. Grant was elected the youngest 19th century president in 1868 to succeed Johnson. He was memorialized at the time of his death as a symbol of national unity. He was hailed as a military genius, and his modern strategies of warfare are featured in many military history textbooks. Grant is regarded as an embattled president who performed a difficult job during the Reconstruction.
