General in Chief of the Union Army and U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant rose from comparative obscurity to become general in chief of the Union army late in the war, securing victory by through ...

On page 931 of his 1,074-page biography of Ulysses S. Grant, author Ron Chernow drops an interesting, if relatively unimportant, local tidbit about the Civil War hero and 18th president of the ...

Ulysses S. Grant continued the American tradition of electing military figures as presidents—those men who led and won key battles in war. Attempting to be apolitical, Grant campaigned on the ...

Why look back when we still have so far to go? As home to the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, Mississippi State University has assembled a staggering array of artifacts from the famed civil war ...

(KWQC) - Students at Galva Junior-High School participated in a Zoom call with a descendant of President Ulysses S ... War. Students spoke with the great-great-grandson of President Grant ...

This nearly 10-acre site is dedicated to the U.S. Civil War general and two-term U.S. president, Ulysses S. Grant, who lived here with his wife, family and enslaved workers in the 1850s.

The Hayes Home will welcome the premier living history presenter portraying U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant on May 16 ... Visit part of Cleveland Civil War Roundtable tour Fields is coming ...

As they paraded by him for the first time in March of 1864, soldiers of the Army of the Potomac knew the general in full dress blues, accented with sash and sword, was the freshly minted commander of ...

Soon, Grant began courting Julia Dent, Fred's sister. The two quickly fell in love. In 1844 Julia accepted Ulysses' marriage proposal. But before they could marry, Ulysses went off to war for the ...

An attempt to cut down on the illegal cotton trade, Grant’s decision ... before and during the Civil War John Reeves How One Robber Baron's Gamble on Railroads Brought Down His Bank and Plunged ...