USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A fraudulent scheme involving whiskey distillers, agents of the Internal Revenue Service, Treasury clerks and others marred Grant’s presidency. A fraudulent scheme involving whiskey distillers, agents of the Internal Revenue Service, Treasury clerks and others marred Grant’s presidency.

Detailed explanation-2: -Of all the major St. Louis Whiskey Ring defendants, Babcock alone received acquittal. Although Babcock won the battle, he lost the war.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1865, as commanding general, Ulysses S. Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. As an American hero, Grant was later elected the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877), working to implement Congressional Reconstruction and to remove the vestiges of slavery.

Detailed explanation-4: -Whiskey Ring, in U.S. history, group of whiskey distillers (dissolved in 1875) who conspired to defraud the federal government of taxes.