The column of mourners who accompanied Grant was seven miles long. Among those mourners were three presidents.
Don't take a good joke for Grant-ed. Most people have heard the joke "who's buried in Grant's Tomb?" but New Yorkers and tourists at the famous Morningside Heights landmark this week couldn't agree ...
There was much debate over where the 18th American President and Civil War General Ulysses S. Grant should be laid to rest. A proposal by Mayor William Russell Grace to have Grant’s memorial in New ...
Thousands of mourners accompanied Grant's tomb through New York City. New York Historical Society. As Ulysses S. Grant's funeral procession made its way through New York City on August 8, 1885, it ...