[392]

^ Corbin and Gould ordered Grant's personal secretary Horace Porter $500,000 in gold and purchased $1.5 million in gold for Corbin.[392]

^ Grant's inner circle, including Julia, were rumored to also have been given speculative gold accounts.[392]

^ An 1870 Congressional investigation chaired by James A. Garfield cleared Grant of profiteering, but excoriated Gould and Fisk for their manipulation of the gold market and Corbin for exploiting his personal connection to Grant.[401]

^ Urged by his Secretary of War Rawlins, Grant initially supported recognition of Cuban belligerency, but Rawlins's death on September 6, 1869, removed any cabinet support for military intervention.[384]

^ The international tribunal awarded the United States $15,500,000.[411]

^ There is evidence to suggest in Babcock's diary that he was offered 1,000 acres of land in exchange for annexation.[422]

^ His Peace Policy aimed to replace entrepreneurs serving as Native American agents with missionaries and aimed to protect Native Americans on reservations and educate them in farming.[445]

^ Grant believed that Native Americans, given opportunities for education and work, could serve alongside white men. 