Symbolism, Setting, and Objects from Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant

Object Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major objects in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Objects

Montgomery County, Pennsylvania - Where Grant was born.

West Point - Where Grant attended college.

Vera Cruz - Where Grant's troops took a walled city and then quickly moved on to avoid the possibility of catching Yellow Fever.

Detroit, Michigan - Where Grant was ordered to serve for about two years following his marriage to Julia Dent.

Slug - The name given the fifty-dollar gold pieces common in the San Francisco area that were not government issue.

Galena, Illinois - Where Grant was working as a clerk in his father's store when the...
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