Ulysses S. Grant graduated West Point in 1843. He served in the Mexican War and then suffered through the lean years between the wars. This is a novel involving him and classmates from West Point to that war. FREE in eBook on all platforms.

2. What is more important...
Honor or Loyalty?

3. In the vein of HBO’s Rome
miniseries: it’s often the
people history doesn’t note
that make history.

4. West Point Then

5. Benny Havens Tavern
Our story starts in May 1840, at Benny Havens Tavern,
infamous as a cadet rendezvous just off post of West Point.
William Tecumseh Sherman, with Cadets Cord and King,
are toasting graduation.

6. Benny Havens
They still sing of Benny Havens at West Point.
Unfortunately for Cadet Cord, Mister Havens’ daughter,
Lidia, is in a motherly state. Cadet King challenges Cord to duel
over the young woman’s honor
BENNY HAVENS, OH!
Come, tune your voices, comrades, and stand up in a row.
For to singing sentimentally we are about to go;
In the army there's sobriety, promotions very slow,
So we'll sing our reminiscences of Benny Havens, Oh I
Chorus.
Benny Havens, Oh! Benny Havens, Oh!
We'll sing our reminiscences of Benny Havens, Oh!

7. Ulysses S. Grant
Racing for help, Sherman finds Grant at the riding hall
along with Cadets Rumble and Longstreet.
Grant was a horse whisperer, renowned in the Corps for
his ability with the beasts.

8. Ulysses S. Grant
Grant excelled in two subjects at West Point: art and
mathematics.
The drawing below is one of his works.

9. “At West Point, much of
the history we teach,
was made by people we
taught.”

10. William T. Sherman

11. Ulysses S. Grant
This is the earliest photo of Grant, taken after his graduation in
1843.
He joins Sherman and they gallop down to Benny Havens to
stop the duel, along with his friend Cadet Rumble. In the
confrontation along the Hudson River, Rumble takes responsibility
for Lidia’s condition and thus history is made and the fates of all
involved are intertwined with history.

12. The Corps
Rumble must resign from the Corps.
The Vigilance Committee pays Mister Cord a visit, but
he refuses to resign, despite his dishonor.

13. And At Sea, The Event that
led to the U.S. Naval
Academy
A mutiny aboard the USS Somers leads to the founding
a shore-based school for midshipmen; the US Naval
Academy.
The image below is of the mutineers hanging under the
US Flag.

14. The Looming War
Grant is married, with Longstreet as his best man. But
war with Mexico looms. Long afterward, Grant would say: "I
was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day, regard
the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever
waged by a stronger against a weaker nation."

15. What is more important... Honor or Loyalty?
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17. ss of 1966; 173rd Airborne in Vietnam 1967; 5th Specia
Now? New York City 1977.

18. New York Times bestselling author, graduate of West
Point and former Green Beret. He’s had over 75 books
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