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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 first call for volunteers was issued.
Cold Harbor
Where Grant asked Lee for a truce to remove the dead and wounded from the battlefield. By the time an agreement was reached, all but a few of the Union wounded had died.
Chattanooga
Where Grant questioned a Confederate soldier before discovering that the man was actually a Union soldier.
City Point, Virginia
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