What things did Ulysses S. Grant do that everyone though of him as a highly moral man?

Answer 1

Drunken, corrupt and considered one of the worst presidents ever. Also, some historians say he let his troops get slaughtered on several ocassions.

Answer 2

I don't history has ever taken a view of US Grant as having been a particularly good example of moral or amoral behavior. If you think drinking alcohol in excess is a vice, then Grant was up there with the serious drinkers.

Grant appears to have been faithful to his wife, but his fidelity came at a price...which was drinking.

Really, Grant was pretty much an every man kind of guy that got the job done.

His counterpart now, RE Lee was and is regarded as a highly moral man. Might be worth more of your time if personal morality is what you are looking for. Lee had it in spades.

Answer 3

He started the Secret Service division of the FBI which was originally supposed to track down counterfeiters but ended up becoming the President's security. He did not condemn any of the Confederate soldiers at Appomattix Court House at the end of the Civil War.

Answer 4

He was a notable loser in every facet of his life until he got the chance to stand and deliver as general and then President.

I don't know that he is known for being extremely moral, but he was more of an everyman who was great when it really mattered.

Answer 5

Wikipedia entry:

Grant announced generous terms for his defeated foes, and pursued a policy of peace. He broke with President Andrew Johnson in 1867, and was elected President as a Republican in 1868. He led Radical Reconstruction and built a powerful patronage-based Republican party in the South, with the adroit use of the army. He took a hard line that reduced violence by groups like the Ku Klux Klan. Grant was personally honest, but he not only tolerated financial and political corruption among top aides, he protected them once exposed. He blocked civil service reforms and defeated the reform movement in the Republican party in 1872, driving out many of its founders. The Panic of 1873 pushed the nation into a depression that Grant was helpless to reverse. Presidential experts typically rank Grant in the lowest quartile of U.S. presidents, primarily for his tolerance of corruption. In recent years, however, his reputation as president has improved somewhat among scholars impressed by his support for civil rights for African Americans[2]. Unsuccessful in winning a third term in 1880, bankrupted by bad investments, and terminally ill with throat cancer, Grant wrote his Memoirs which were enormously successful among veterans, the public, and the critics.

Link for more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant

Answer 6

He won the civil war and did not persecute the losers