Ulysses S. Grant, still a Lieutenant General of the U.S. Army, is detained by two Police officers in Washington, D.C. on April 9, 1866, for fast driving on 14th Street while “exercising his fast gray nag”. The incident took place on the one-year anniversary of General Lee’s surrender to Grant in Appomattox, Virginia.
Grant offered to pay the fine, but “expressed his doubts of their authority to arrest him and drove off.” Several days later, Grant “acknowledge the service of a warrant for fast driving and appeared before the Justice of the Peace and paid the fine.” More
