According to History.com “Grant invested his savings in a financial firm in which his son was a partner; however, the firm’s other partner swindled its investors in 1884, causing the business to collapse and bankrupting Grant,¨ (History.com).
According to Civil War Trust ¨Grant spent the next six years in St. Louis, Missouri with his wife, Julia Dent Grant. After several short-lived pursuits, including a brief episode as a farmer, he moved to Galena, Illinois to be a clerk in his family's store,¨ (Civil war trust).
As we all know Grant had an amazing reputations, but his life was really hard like most people. Grant showed us that everything we want will not always go right just like in the old days. In the Civil war many problem occurred. You can't always do whatever you want in life itself. Grant wanted to spend significant time with his wife and family, but when people needed Grant. Grant always had to go because he wanted peace in the world. Grant has showed us that even in the past they had hard time and in the present time we still have hard time in life.
Now that we know how hard life was in the Civil War. Now we can say that life can be always easy. Even for the wealthy ones. Grant went through tough time which brought him his reputation in the world. Even though if you life was hard it does not matter because even for Grant life was hard, and he still went through a great life of success.