Ulysses S. Grant’s return to Fort Vancouver following two terms as president will be the topic of a public presentation Saturday at the Fort Vancouver Visitor Center.
Historian Kristine Deacon will present “Sentimental Journey: Ulysses S. Grant’s Return to Fort Vancouver” at 1 p.m.
The free presentation will be in the theater space of the Visitor Center, 1501 E. Evergreen Blvd., at the east end of Officers Row.
Deacon, a historian of the Pacific Northwest based in Salem, Ore., has published articles on Grant’s world tours in the late 1870s.
“Ulysses S. Grant is a pivotal figure of the Civil War, and many historians acknowledge his time spent at the Vancouver Barracks in 1852-1853 while he was in the Quartermaster’s Corps,” Bob Cromwell, chief of interpretation at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, said in a news release.
“But fewer historians have looked at his triumphant return to the Pacific Northwest after his two terms as U.S. president.”
Deacon’s presentation “will provide some insight into post-Civil War history of the namesake of the Vancouver Barracks’ Commanding Officers’ house on Officers Row: the Grant House,” Cromwell said.
