Inside the Vault: Ulysses S. Grant
by Gilder Lehrman Staff
Originally broadcast on May 15, 2020, this session of Inside the Vault: Highlights from the Gilder Lehrman Collection explores the earliest known letter by Ulysses S. Grant, written when he was a 17-year-old cadet at West Point, and a political cartoon showing Grant’s “bull-dog” grip on the Confederacy in 1864. Patience LeBlanc, the 2018 Gilder Lehrman Texas History Teacher of the Year, joins the Gilder Lehrman curators in conversation.
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Classroom-ready resources for the documents presented
- The earliest known letter by Grant, written when he was a 17-year-old cadet at West Point
- A political cartoon showing Grant’s “bull-dog” grip on the Confederacy in 1864
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- The earliest known letter by Grant, written when he was a 17-year-old cadet at West Point: 6:40–26:20
- A political cartoon showing Grant’s “bull-dog” grip on the Confederacy in 1864: 34:20–56:00