If he was alive today, he'd be in all the history books, because he'd be 185 years old. Oh, and he's on the 50-dollar bill.
But if someone asks you who's buried in Grant's Tomb, tell him that it's definitely not Ulysses S. Grant.
He AND his wife are *entombed* there, not buried.
And his name isn't Ulysses S. Grant.
It's Hiram Ulysses Grant. The "Ulysses S. Grant" came about when Congressman Tom Hamer appointed him to West Point. He knew that Grant's mother was born a Simpson, and thinking that to be Lyss's middle name, he filled out the application in the name of "Ulysses S. Grant".