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Witness to some of the bloodiest battles in history, Grant could not stomach the sight of
animal blood -- rare steak nauseated him.
Grant smoked ten to twenty cigars a day. A reporter reported that Grant
liked cigars, and people started to send him cigars. He received over 20,000 of them.
Ten years after he was president, Grant was stricken with throat cancer, and he
regularly swabbed his throat with cocaine, becoming addicted to it.
Grant once said that he knew only two songs, "One was Yankee Doodle, and the other
wasn't."
Grant was the second man in American history to be a Lieutenant General.
Ulysses S. Grant had the boyhood nickname 'Useless'.