biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1835–84)
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| biography:
| Union soldier, born in Franklin, Vermont, USA. He trained at West Point (1861), served as an aide-de-camp to General Grant (1864), and soon became a confidant of the commander-in-chief. He was acquitted of fraud charges in the ‘Whiskey Ring’ scandal of the 1870s, largely as a result of Grant's intercession. |
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