For once, this is not a joke: Who is buried in Grant’s tomb?
A general who doesn’t have the Army’s highest rank. Not yet, anyway.
Fans of Ulysses S. Grant are campaigning for a promotion that would elevate Grant to a rank held by only two other former generals, George Washington and the World War I hero John J. Pershing — general of the armies of the United States, above even five-star generals.
Grant became the nation’s first four-star general in 1866, after the Civil War. His supporters had hoped the posthumous promotion would come through in time for the 200th anniversary of Grant’s birth, which is today.
