Description: The photo documents the condition of Grant's Cabin , then located at Ohio State Fairgrounds, Columbus, 1936. The floor is littered with broken beams and fragments of wood. Two unidentified figures (heads cropped out of the photo) stand in the middle of the photo. U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) was born in this cabin in Point Pleasant, Ohio. In 1888 the cabin was removed from its foundation in Point Pleasant and placed aboard a boat for exhibition in Cincinnati. Afterwards it was moved to Goodale Park (Columbus, Ohio) as part of the Northwest Territory centennial. During the 1890s the cabin was returned to the fairgrounds in Columbus. It remained there until 1936, when the Ohio Historical Society, under a legislative order, returned it to its original site in Point Pleasant. The cabin, in poor condition, was dismantled and relocated in February 1936. It has been restored with period furniture and opened for public tours. Grant Birthplace is located at 1551 State Rt 232, in Point Pleasant (Clermont County), just off of U.S. Route 52, about five miles east of New Richmond. Grant was an American military leader and the eighteenth president of the United States. He served in the Mexican War but was never happy with military life and resigned his commission in 1854. At the outbreak of the Civil War he organized a company in Galena (Illinois) and later accepted command of the 21st Illinois Regiment. In August 1861, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Grant brigadier general of volunteers. In 1864 Grant became lieutenant general commanding all the armies of the U.S. He served as president from 1869-1877. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05778
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; Historic preservation; Historic sites Ohio; Point Pleasant (Ohio); Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Birthplaces
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: A view of the deteriorated floor of the Grant Cabin, Ohio State Fairgrounds, Columbus, 1936. (This photograph appears to be rotated 90 degrees clockwise from its horizontal axis.) U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) was born in this cabin in Point Pleasant, Ohio (Clermont County). The cabin was removed from its foundation in Point Pleasant in 1888 and placed aboard a boat for exhibition in Cincinnati. Afterwards it was moved to Goodale Park (Columbus, Ohio) as part of the Northwest Territory centennial. During the 1890s the cabin was returned to the fairgrounds in Columbus. It remained there until 1936, when the Ohio Historical Society, under a legislative order, returned it to its original site in Point Pleasant. Before its relocation the cabin, in poor condition, was dismantled in February 1936. It has been restored with period furniture and opened to public tours. Grant Birthplace is located at 1551 State Rt 232, in Point Pleasant, in Clermont County, just off of U.S. Route 52 about five miles east of New Richmond. Ulysses Simpson Grant was an American military leader and the eighteenth president of the United States. He served in the Mexican War but was never happy with military life and resigned his commission in 1854. At the outbreak of the Civil War he organized a company in Galena (Illinois) and later accepted command of the 21st Illinois Regiment. In August 1861, President Abraham Lincoln made Grant brigadier general of volunteers. In 1864 Grant became lieutenant general commanding all the armies of the U.S. He served as president from 1869-1877. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05790
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; Historic preservation; Historic sites Ohio; Point Pleasant (Ohio); Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Birthplaces
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Moving Grant's Cabin, Ohio State Fairgrounds, Columbus, Ohio, February 1936. A group of unidentified men are loading a truss section from the cabin where U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio. The cabin was removed from its foundation in Point Pleasant in 1888 and placed aboard a boat for exhibition in Cincinnati. Afterwards it was moved to Goodale Park (Columbus, Ohio) as part of the Northwest Territory centennial. During the 1890s the cabin was returned to the fairgrounds in Columbus. It remained there until 1936, when the Ohio Historical Society, under a legislative order, returned it to its original site in Point Pleasant. The cabin, in poor condition, was dismantled in February 1936. It has been restored with period furniture and opened to public tours. Grant Birthplace is located at 1551 State Rt 232, in Point Pleasant, in Clermont County, just off of U.S. Route 52, about five miles east of New Richmond. Ulysses Simpson Grant was an American military leader and the eighteenth president of the United States. He served in the Mexican War but was never happy with military life and resigned his commission in 1854. At the outbreak of the Civil War he organized a company in Galena (Illinois) and later accepted command of the 21st Illinois Regiment. In August 1861, President Abraham Lincoln made Grant brigadier general of volunteers. In 1864 Grant became lieutenant general commanding all the armies of the U.S. He served as president from 1869-1877. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05791
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; Historic preservation; Historic sites Ohio; Point Pleasant (Ohio); Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Birthplaces
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: General Ulysses S. Grant's funeral procession on Broadway, New York, New York, on August 8, 1885. A horse-drawn catafalque bearing the coffin of Ulysses S. Grant, Civil War general and the eighteenth president of the United States, moves down Broadway accompanied by an honor guard. Spectators, many of them holding umbrellas, line the street. Poles strung with wires bisect the image horizontally. The procession stretched for seven miles. Grant died July 23, 1885, in Mount McGregor, New York. In accordance with his wishes, his family selected Riverside Park in New York City as the site of his final resting place. Grant’s remains were interred in a temporary vault. Shortly after his death a newly organized grassroots organization, the Grant Monument Association, began accepting donations to fund the construction of a permanent memorial. Ninety thousand individuals collectively donated an estimated $600,000 to the fund its construction (the largest public fundraising effort at the time). The cornerstone was laid in 1891, and the memorial was completed six years later. More than one million people attended the parade and dedication ceremony of General Grant National Memorial (popularly known as Grant’s Tomb) on April 27, 1897. Julia Grant died on December 14, 1902, in Washington, D.C., and her remains were interred beside her husband's in a twin sarcophagus. Architect John Duncan designed the granite and marble structure, still the largest mausoleum in North America. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05792
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885--Death & burial--New York (State)--New York; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics
Places: New York (New York); New York County (New York)
 

Description: A view of the crowd during President William McKinley's visit to Grant's birthplace, the Grant Memorial Building, at the Ohio State Fair, Columbus, Ohio. Grant remained widely popular after his death in 1885, and supporters transported the cabin he was born in to Cincinnati for display by the Ohio Valley Centennial Exposition along the banks of the canal. In 1888, Columbus resident Henry T. Chittenden brought the cabin to Goodale Park, and in 1896 the home was brought to the Ohio State Fairgrounds where a pavilion was constructed around the house to protect it from the elements. Two men are seated near the front door of the cottage that houses the Grant Cabin, the tiny structure where Ulysses S. Grant was born in 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio. A man in a top hat is seated on what may be the driver's seat of a horse-drawn carriage. The crowd is seen from the back. A parked car is visible in the photo's left center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05795
Subjects: McKinley, William, 1843-1901; Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; Historic preservation; Historic sites Ohio; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Birthplaces
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Exterior view of the front door to Grant's cabin, then on display at the Ohio State Fairgrounds, Columbus, Ohio, February 7, 1936. President Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) was born in this cabin in Point Pleasant, Ohio. The cabin was removed from its foundation in Point Pleasant in 1888 and placed aboard a boat for exhibition in Cincinnati. Afterwards it was moved to Goodale Park (Columbus, Ohio) as part of the Northwest Territory centennial. During the 1890s the cabin was returned to the fairgrounds in Columbus. It remained there until 1936, when the Ohio Historical Society, under a legislative order, returned it to its original site in Point Pleasant. The cabin, in poor condition, was dismantled in February 1936. It has been restored with period furniture and opened to public tours. Grant Birthplace is located at 1551 State Rt 232, in Point Pleasant, in Clermont County, just off of U.S. Route 52, about five miles east of New Richmond. Ulysses Simpson Grant was an American military leader and the eighteenth president of the United States. He served in the Mexican War but was never happy with military life and resigned his commission in 1854. At the outbreak of the Civil War he organized a company in Galena (Illinois) and later accepted command of the 21st Illinois Regiment. In August 1861, President Abraham Lincoln made Grant brigadier general of volunteers. In 1864 Grant became lieutenant general commanding all the armies of the U.S. He served as president from 1869-1877. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05799
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; Historic preservation; Historic sites Ohio; Point Pleasant (Ohio); Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Birthplaces
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This 2.5 by 4-inch (6.35 by 10.16 cm) carte de visite depicts Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), the eighteenth president of the United States and the second president from Ohio. Born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant Ohio, in 1839 Grant entered the United States Military Academy at West Point, where a roster mistakenly listed his name as Ulysses Simpson. He was known as Ulysses S. Grant for the rest of his life. Grant served in the Mexican War, but was never happy with military life and resigned his commission in 1854. After unsuccessful attempts at farming and real estate, Grant moved to Galena, Illinois, where he worked in his father's leather shop. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he organized a company in Galena and later accepted command of the 21st Illinois Regiment. In August 1861, Lincoln made Grant brigadier general of volunteers. Grant came to national attention by capturing the Confederate Forts Henry and Donelson, the first major Union victories of the war. In spite of a devastating defeat at Shiloh, Grant won major victories at Vicksburg and Chattanooga. In 1864, Grant was made lieutenant general commanding all the armies of the U.S. In this position, Grant devised a concerted plan of action for all the Union armies. Although Grant lost to Confederate General Robert E. Lee in battle, other Northern armies were successful and weakened the Confederacy. He presided over General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox on April 9, 1865. Grant served as president from 1869-1877. Southern reconstruction was one of the major issues of Grant's presidency. He occasionally encouraged the process with the force of federal troops. Although Grant is considered to have been honest himself, he was surrounded by dishonest men, causing his administration to be marred with scandal. He was re-elected in 1872 and ran for a third time in 1880 but was unsuccessful. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00540
Subjects: Military Ohio; Presidents and Politics; Civil War; Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Places: Brown County (Ohio); St. Louis (Missouri)
 

Description: Modern reproduction of a photograph depicting General Ulysses S. Grant posed with his staff while campaigning in Virginia during the Civil War, 1864. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06095
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885--Military leadership; Presidents
Places: Point Pleasant (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio); Virginia
 

Description: The color photograph shows the exterior of the Ulysses S. Grant Birthplace in Point Pleasant, Ohio, in 1993. The cabin, painted white, has two windows on either side of the front door. A tall brick chimney, also white, stands on the cabin's right side. A white fence extends along the front of the cabin, and a stone walkway leads to the front steps. A sign identifying the site is located on the lawn. Hiram Ulysses Grant was born in this one-story, timber-frame home on April 27, 1822, to Jesse and Hannah Simpson Grant. The Grants settled in Point Pleasant the previous year, and Jesse took charge of the tannery located near the cottage. The cabin was removed from its foundation in Point Pleasant in 1888 and placed aboard a boat for exhibition in Cincinnati. Afterwards it was moved to Goodale Park (Columbus, Ohio) as part of the Northwest Territory centennial. During the 1890s the cabin was returned to the fairgrounds in Columbus. It remained there until 1936, when the Ohio Historical Society, under a legislative order, returned it to its original site in Point Pleasant, Ohio. The dismantling of the badly deteriorated cabin for relocation occurred in February 1936 at the Columbus Fairgrounds. The cabin was restored with period furniture and opened to public tours. The Grant Birthplace memorial is located at 1551 State Rt 232, in Point Pleasant (Clermont County), just off of U.S. Route 52, about five miles east of New Richmond. Ulysses Simpson Grant was an American military leader and the eighteenth president of the United States. He served in the Mexican War but was never happy with military life and resigned his commission in 1854. At the outbreak of the Civil War he organized a company in Galena and later accepted command of the 21st Illinois Regiment. In August 1861, President Abraham Lincoln made Grant brigadier general of volunteers. In 1864 Grant became lieutenant general commanding all the armies of the U.S. He served as U.S. president from 1869-1877. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07013
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; Birthplaces; Point Pleasant (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio)
Places: Point Pleasant (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio)
 

Description: This color image shows the interior of the Ulysses S. Grant birthplace, located in Point Pleasant, Ohio. The room includes a brick fireplace, a mantel painted turquoise blue, a wooden table and serving items, a corner cabinet, and wooden bench. Hiram Ulysses Grant was born in this one-story, timber-frame home on April 27, 1822, to Jesse and Hannah Simpson Grant. The Grants settled in Point Pleasant the previous year, and Jesse took charge of the tannery located near the cottage. The cabin was removed from its foundation in Point Pleasant in 1888 and placed aboard a boat for exhibition in Cincinnati. Afterwards it was moved to Goodale Park (Columbus, Ohio) as part of the Northwest Territory centennial. During the 1890s the cabin was returned to the fairgrounds in Columbus. It remained there until 1936, when the Ohio Historical Society, under a legislative order, returned it to its original site in Point Pleasant, Ohio. The dismantling of the badly deteriorated cabin for relocation occurred in February 1936 at the Columbus Fairgrounds. The cabin was restored with period furniture and opened to public tours. The Grant Birthplace memorial is located at 1551 State Rt 232, in Point Pleasant (Clermont County), just off of U.S. Route 52, about five miles east of New Richmond. Ulysses Simpson Grant was an American military leader and the eighteenth president of the United States. He served in the Mexican War but was never happy with military life and resigned his commission in 1854. At the outbreak of the Civil War he organized a company in Galena and later accepted command of the 21st Illinois Regiment. In August 1861, President Abraham Lincoln made Grant brigadier general of volunteers. In 1864 Grant became lieutenant general commanding all the armies of the U.S. He served as U.S. president from 1869-1877. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07014
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; Birthplaces; Point Pleasant (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio)
Places: Point Pleasant (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio)
 

Description: Carte de visite portrait of Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., known as Buck, who was the second son of Civil War general and United States President Ulysses S. Grant and his wife, Julia Dent Grant, ca. 1862. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04521
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; Other--Family History; Children
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image is a black-and-white photographic reproduction of a watercolor painting by Ulysses S. Grant in 1841, when he was a cadet attending the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York. Grant was an average student, although he excelled in mathematics and horsemanship. He also studied art and painting at West Point and completed many sketches and paintings as a cadet. In this painting Grant portrays a trade bargaining session between two men, one of them a Native American. A Native American woman holding an infant stands behind the man who is wearing a cap and holding a light-colored blanket. This painting is displayed in the West Point Museum. Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885) was a U.S. military leader and the eighteenth President of the United States. He was born Hiram Ulysses Grant on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio. In 1823, his family moved to Georgetown, Ohio. Grant lived there until he received an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point in July 1839. The congressman who appointed Grant submitted his name as Ulysses Simpson Grant rather than Hiram Ulysses Grant. It was because of this mistake that Grant changed his name. Grant graduated from West Point in 1843. He ranked twenty-first in a class of thirty-nine students. His first assignment was in the Southwest. Grant served under General Zachary Taylor in the Mexican-American War. He remained in the West following the war. In 1852, after quarreling with a higher-ranking officer, Grant resigned his commission. At the outbreak of the Civil War he organized a company in Galena and later accepted command of the 21st Illinois Regiment. In August 1861, President Abraham Lincoln made Grant brigadier general of volunteers. In March 1864, President Lincoln promoted Grant to lieutenant general and named him supreme commander of all Union forces. Under his leadership the Union Army emerged the victor in April 1865. Grant served as U.S. president from 1869-1877. He spent his last years in New York, writing his memoirs. He died on July 23, 1885, of throat cancer. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04524
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; Paintings; American Indian history and society; West Point Museum; Ohio History--Military Ohio
Places: West Point (New York)