Illinois Adventure

[@DougGrinbergs]

4:04 most sites say he died of throat - not lung! - cancer. (Technically, NIH says carcinoma of the right tonsillar pillar)

[@marksauck8481]

My memory of a tour I took of Grant’s house was how surprised I felt of the tight and rather cramped spaces inside with the staircase and rooms. I wondered if that was typical of homes made back then.

[@victorianhomejournal4043]

Wow I love it. The house and history. The home looks similar to mine.

[@aa64912]

In st Clair county in Illinois captain grant was in charge of a camp there plus outside of St. Louis is grants farm

[@maclac48]

Very intriguing. 👍🏿

[@cwb0051]

beautiful home..

[@h.vendelssohn7114]

this was very fun

[@WTVP]

+Brian F. Thanks!

[@rbsmith3365]

Nice but nobody warned about smoking until 1964.

[@catsnmi270]

Precisely. In my parents' day smoking cigarettes and cigars was considered to bestow beneficial properties upon the smoker. My father started smoking at age 14 and only stopped at age 83. He used to smoke an average of 60 cigarettes a day and he was a doctor!! He died at age 93 - no, not of lung cancer!

[@jimallison6125]

Don't go there on a Monday. We did and it was closed.

[@dbsven7017]

Galena holds on to Grant very tightly even though his time there was very short. He may have owned the house for 40 years. But he lived there personally for a few months total. After the civil war, he was still serving in some capacity for the army/ government until he was elected president. After his presidency, he toured the world for several years. After that he lived and died in New York. After grant's death, his wife Julia lived in Washington DC until she died. So Galena was never seen as "home" to the grant's. In reality, the Grant's lived in Galena for a total of maybe a couple of years. So while this house is a great historical monument, it doesn't hold the same level of importance to me as other "homes" of historically important people. To me it's no more interesting than those places that claim, "George Washington spent the night here once".

[@marksauck8481]

Grant worked in his father’s tannery in Galena before the civil war.

[@cherylroberts3569]

Cant see real good because of the words on the screen

[@firemj6761]

I went to galena and toured this, the bath part was just disgusting

[@lizzapaolia959]

God bless the Confederacy and the South 😁.

[@jeffevans3193]

He was a terrible speller,worse than me.

[@KillaCommieFerMommie]

*FUN FACT* .... Grant owned 1 slave....Robert E. Lee owned NONE.

[@uwantsun]

He was given the slave as a wedding gift by his father in law and immediately set him free, rather than sell him for 1000 dollars.

[@KillaCommieFerMommie]

@@uwantsun Complete and utter BS

[@uwantsun]

@@KillaCommieFerMommie why do you hate him so much? Because you are not half the man he was?

[@wolfpak8228]

I like Grant as a tenacious General, but he was a crummy President...

[@ericaguidino3376]

He was a boozer also.

[@maclac48]

21stCenturyHandyman Good point. 👍🏿

[@GH-oi2jf]

Wolf Pak - He is currently ranked approximately in the middle of the pack. His earlier, poor rating, was based on disinformation from his enemies.

[@seththomas9105]

Grants star as a president has risen considerably in the last 30 years as historians have re-examined his presidency and have dismissed much of the outright lies that were spoken about him by his detractors.

[@maclac48]

Is it true that he was nothin but an old drunk?

[@GH-oi2jf]

maclac48 - No.

[@uwantsun]

no.