USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Grant dies, July 23, 1885. On this day in 1885, shortly after completing his memoirs, Ulysses S. Grant, the nation’s 18th president and a key architect of the Union victory in the Civil War, died at age 63 of throat cancer.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ulysses S Grant’s funeral procession. On July 23, 1885, President Ulysses S. Grant died of throat cancer.

Detailed explanation-3: -Grant, original name Hiram Ulysses Grant, (born April 27, 1822, Point Pleasant, Ohio, U.S.-died July 23, 1885, Mount McGregor, New York), U.S. general, commander of the Union armies during the late years (1864–65) of the American Civil War, and 18th president of the United States (1869–77).