Who is this person?

[David Lockmiller]

(11-06-2018 10:23 AM)L Verge Wrote:  Was the West Point record tied to his skills as a horseman?

Absolutely.

While at the Academy, his greatest interest was horses, and he earned a reputation as the "most proficient" horseman. During the graduation ceremony, while riding York, a large and powerful horse that only Grant could manage well, he set a high-jump record that stood for 25 years. (Source: Wikipedia on "Grant")

Grant demonstrated his equestrian ability at the Battle of Monterrey by carrying a dispatch past snipers while hanging off the side of his horse, keeping the animal between him and the enemy. (Source: Wikipedia on "Grant")

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(11-06-2018 08:26 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(11-06-2018 07:26 AM)David Lockmiller Wrote:  Shortly after his graduation from West Point in 1843, Ulysses Grant shared an important national political opinion (that lasted a lifetime) with Congressman Abraham Lincoln. What was the nature of this opinion?

Is it the fact that both men opposed the Mexican War?

"There was no intimation given that the removal of the 3rd and 4th regiments of infantry to the western border of Louisiana was occasioned in any way by the prospective annexation of Texas, but it was generally understood that such was the case. Ostensibly we were intended to prevent filibustering into Texas, but really as a menace to Mexico in case she appeared to contemplate war. Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation was consummated or not; but not all of them. For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory."

(Source:"Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant," (1885), Volume 1, page 53.)