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  • New Jerseyan takes up a charge for tomb of President Ulysses Grant

    05/15/2004 6:10:15 PM PDT · by Coleus · 4 replies · 233+ views
    The Newark Star Ledger | 04.27.04
    Jerseyan takes up a charge for Grant Descendant seeks to preserve tomb Sunday, April 25, 2004 His name is Ulysses Grant Dietz.He hasn't written anything like his famous ancestor's two-volume "Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant." His writings have been on such topics as "Desmond: A Novel of Love and the Modern Vampire," a twist on the Dracula legend.But Dietz, who lives in Maplewood and is steeped in the art world as a curator of the Newark Museum, is not unlike the ancestor credited with helping to save the Union.President Abraham Lincoln, frustrated with the slowness of certain Union commanders to...