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On April 11, 1854, under a cloud of suspicion, Captain Ulysses S. Grant resigned his commission in the U.S. Army. Already saddled with debt, the Mexican War hero had no real prospects for supporting his family and his future appeared anything but promising.
Yet, a scant 10 years later,