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Every Time I Walk Past Grant’s Tomb I Wonder “Was The Union Worth Saving?”

The general — and former president — is my neighbor

John DeVore
Published in
8 min readJul 4, 2022

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I live two blocks from the final resting place of the 18th President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, and his wife, Julia. My Upper Manhattan neighborhood is called Morningside Heights, but Harlem is a short stroll away.

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John DeVore
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