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General Grant Memorial, popularly known as Grant’s Tomb, is the largest mausoleum in America. Its monumental size reflects the public admiration for Ulysses S. Grant, Union general during the Civil War and eighteenth President of the United States. After President Benjamin Harrison laid the cornerstone in 1892, it took six years to build the one hundred fifty-foot-high memorial, using 8,000 tons of granite. Huge crowds attended the dedication in 1897 to honor the man they credited with winning the Civil War, ending slavery, and reuniting the nation. In 1864, Grant wrote, “I have given the subject of arming the Negro my hearty support. This, with the emancipation of the Negro, is the heaviest blow yet given the Confederacy….They will make good soldiers and by taking them from the enemy weakens him in the same proportion they strengthen us.”
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