Grant and Buckner: Three Conversations
The quintessential General Grant
U.S. Grant and S.B. Buckner were cadets at West Point.
Cadets Grant and Buckner
Ulysses S. Grant, class of 1843, and Simon Bolivar Buckner, class of 1844, were both midwesterners of middle-class standing both financially and academically.
West Point classes were small prior to the Civil War, perhaps 40 or 50 cadets. Most students had at least a passing acquaintance with their upper and lower academy mates.
Grant, an Ohioan, was a y...
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