Coming from the Philadelphia area Dr. Kahan is a well-known and respected authority on the history; of American corrections, American diplomacy; cultural history, education and history of Pennsylvania will present a history of the politics of Reconstruction in a changing America.
In The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant: Preserving the Civil War’s Legacy, historian Paul Kahan focuses on the unique political, economic, and cultural forces unleashed by the Civil War and how Grant addressed these issues during his tumultuous two terms as chief executive. A timely reassessment, The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant sheds new light on the business of politics in the decade after the Civil War and portrays an energetic and even progressive executive whose legacy has been overshadowed by both his wartime service and his administration’s many scandals.
During Grants first term as U.S. President would come to our area just to go fishing. Grants train pulling into the siding, with Mix and Dents Runs as his destination for fishing. It is said that that both runs were teeming with brook trout, even though they didn't stock trout nor a limit in those days. Sounds like heaven.
In "The Story of the Sinnamahone" George W. Huntley said that they succeeded in catching several hundred of the "Speckled Beauties." Plus Grant enjoyed meeting with the local people and would spend all his non fishing hours sitting on the platform of his train car smoking cigars and just greeting the people, many of who were veterans of the war.
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