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Title	Ulysses S. Grant Birthplace Cabin Moving Photographs
Subject	Architecture Transportation Presidents and Politics Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Presidents Trucks Houses Construction
Place	Columbus (Ohio) Franklin County (Ohio) Point Pleasant (Ohio) Clermont County (Ohio)
Description	Three 5" by 7" (12.7 by 17.8 cm) photographs show the cabin in which President Ulysses S. Grant was born. They were taken on February 24, 1936, the day the cabin was removed from the Ohio State Fairgrounds in Columbus. The first photograph shows workers dismantling the cabin. The second shows portions of the cabin being loaded onto trucks and the third shows the trucks ready to depart. The small frame cabin in which Grant was born in 1822 was removed from its foundation in Point Pleasant in 1888. It was paced aboard a boat for exhibition in Cincinnati. Afterwards it was moved to Columbus's Goodale Park as part of the Northwest Territory centennial. During the 1890s the cabin was returned to the fairgrounds in Columbus, where it remained until 1936, when the Ohio Historical Society, under a legislative order, returned it to its original site in Point Pleasant. Born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant Ohio, Grant entered West Point in 1839 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. 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. In 1864, Grant was made lieutenant general commanding all the armies of the U.S. 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.
Date of Original	February 24, 1936
Collection	Ohio Historical Society Properties File
Source	Audiovisual material; P 365/7/2
Format	picture
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	StillImage; 02/24/1936
Date created	2010-06-04

Title	Om3224_3832105_001
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om3224_3832105_001.tif
Image Height	1744
Image Width	2713
File Size	1209.617 KB
Date created	2009-01-20

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