![]() ![]() Grant: An Interactive Map of His Key Civil War Battles Mark Twain paid Grant to publish his memoirsįormer Civil War General and U.S. However, now that he was confronting the terrifying prospect of leaving Julia a penniless widow, the grizzled general who fought to save the Union undertook one final mission to save his family from impoverishment.ĮXPLORE: Ulysses S. Failing as a farmer and a rent collector prior to the Civil War, he lived in a log cabin that he dubbed “Hardscrabble” and sold firewood on the streets of St. Grant had been no stranger to financial misfortune. When he finally visited a doctor in October, Grant l earned he had incurable throat and tongue cancer, likely a product of his longtime cigar-smoking habit. Still smarting from bankruptcy’s bitter sting, Grant that summer suffered from an excruciating sting in his throat as well. ![]() Desperate to pay his bills, the former U.S. Kind-hearted strangers responded by mailing Grant checks. In fact, Grant had all of $80 to his name. “When I went downtown this morning I thought I was worth a great deal of money, now I don’t know that I have a dollar,” the swindled Civil War hero lamented to a former West Point classmate. ![]() Thanks to a pyramid scheme operated by his unscrupulous partner, Ferdinand Ward, Grant’s investment firm had instantly collapsed, wiping out his life savings. Grant entered the office of his Wall Street brokerage firm a wealthy man. Shortly before noon on May 6, 1884, Ulysses S. ![]()
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