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Grant had few options and a family to support.
Rumored to be a drunkard, Grant is forced to resign as an officer of the US Army. Grant had few options and a family to support. To make matters worse, he suffered from chronic fevers. He failed as a farmer and as a bill collector before at last begging his father for a job in a leather shop in 1860, a few months before the election of Abraham Lincoln as President.
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