Who is buried in GRANT'S TOMB?!?!

[@ulyssess.grantcollectivepr537]

Great video! You will have to come visit Grant Cottage Historic Site some time if you get the chance! www.grantcottage.org

[@dthom88]

Thanks, if I get a chance this summer I will let you know!

[@oliviaquijano9018]

@@dthom88, I have a Question to ask you. What happens when they open up Grant's Coffin, when they try to Vandalize it?

[@andrewthornhill7042]

This place is awesome!

[@scottraabe6443]

Watched in history class, very good job, thank you!

[@clintonstockwell9751]

You did a great job of recounting Grant's life and introducing us to Grant's Tomb. On May 30, 2020, I just finished a class called Ulysses S Grant, Warrior President at the U Chicago Graham Center, and this past Wednesday the History Channel presented a three-night documentary on Grant based on the biography by Ron Chernow. All this is to say that US Grant to some degree is not only getting due recognition, but his life and work as General and President is being reinterpreted in a much more positive and accurate way based in no small part on the cumulative release of the 32 Volume collection of Grant's Letters and Papers which give historian a more clear view of his words and actions.

[@dthom88]

Thank you! Yes I watched the Grant documentary on the History channel last week. I thought it was very well done and I loved the interviews they had.

[@wolfsden3812]

Hopefully you watch the special on the History Channel Grant....it was awesome

[@LawyerCalhoun1]

Before the Tomb was completed, Grant's body was in a temporary tomb in the same park. His casket was inside an outer wooden box. When it came time to move him to the new tomb, they never opened the outer box to remove the casket. They just placed the outer box, with the casket still inside it, in the sarcophagus. I got this from reading the NY Times article in that day's newspaper. Reporting on funerary events of important people used to include all the details.

[@mikeripperda8878]

Wow

[@T.S.1020]

Dave, very informative video. Nicely done.

[@lawrencemalek8876]

Nobody is buried in Grant's tomb because you can't be buried in a tomb, you can only be entombed in a tomb.

[@dthom88]

Lol, yes that’s the joke!

[@mangteban3640]

Try your philosophy somewhere else

[@johnappleyard4123]

A true American

[@francisebbecke2727]

Grant was a great man.

[@ObservantHistorian]

Ooops...thought this was the final question on "Who Want to Be a Millionaire?".

[@curtisstapleton7167]

I pass this often but never been in

[@dthom88]

Not sure if it’s still open since covid but you should check it out! It was a great experience

[@alysonbiscamp4702]

No one .. He and wife are above ground level

[@DavidGarcia-fc1wf]

Lincoln!

[@tedwhitsett2894]

A butcher

[@Frank-mm2yp]

It apparently took a "butcher" to force old 'Bobby Lee"(another butcher) to finally SURRENDER at APPOMATTOX.

[@tedwhitsett2894]

@@Frank-mm2yp was also a "great president" with an administration full of corruption. He got what he deserved....throat cancer

[@Frank-mm2yp]

@@tedwhitsett2894 In the end EVERYBODY gets what they deserve. He was a much better General than he was a President . He turned out to also be a better writer than he was a politician.BTW They were both Republican Administrations, as was Grant (if he was anything), so "corruption" was to be expected. Not that much has changed over the years.

[@tedwhitsett2894]

@@Frank-mm2yp yeah the book savedhis family from poverty

[@mikeratkowski3506]

Ted Whitsett a soldier, and true American.

[@mikeray4578]

Well done.

[@dthom88]

Thank you!