Monument to the only Post Civil War Slaveholder President

Ulysses S. Grant
Slaveholder, Union General, President of the United States

Famous Quotes:

"If I thought this war was to abolish slavery, I would resign my commission and offer my sword to the other side"
— Ulysses S. Grant - 1862

"Good help is hard to find."
— Ulysses S. Grant - 1863, concerning why he did not release his slaves after the Emancipation Proclamation.

Ulysses S. Grant was the last President of the United States who was a slave owner.  Even after the War to Prevent Southern Independence, Grant kept his slaves in bondage until he was forced to release them by the ratification of the 13th and 14th Amendments to the United States Constitution.  

This statue, titled "Grant Our Citizen," is in Grant Park, Galena, Illinois, where he lived for much of his adult life.