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Ulysses S. Grant

18. Ulysses S. Grant (1869–1877)
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illustration: Ulysses S. Grant

photo (adapted): Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, Public domain

18 → dove: Grant releases doves as the Union mends.

Grant, now president, releases eighteen white doves from a wicker cage on the White House lawn. Painted on the cage is his 1868 campaign line: 'Let us have peace.'

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