Ronald C. White is the author of “American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant.” Over the past several years, in cities and on college campuses across the nation, Civil War statues and ...

Ulysses S. Grant rose from comparative obscurity to become general in chief of the Union army late in the war, securing victory by through pure perseverance and by exhausting the Confederates.

Ulysses S. Grant Finally Gets That Promotion. The Civil War general was elevated to general of the armies of the United States, a title his admirers had long sought.

More than 150 years before former President Donald Trump was arrested, a sitting president, Ulysses S. Grant, was in trouble with the law. Grant was an apparent speed demon with his horse and buggy.

For much of his life, Ulysses S. Grant failed at every occupation he tried. But in the United States Army, his remarkable talents as a soldier and leader saved his country from falling apart. Born ...

When police officer William Henry West pulled over Ulysses S. Grant for speeding in a horse-drawn carriage on the streets of Washington, D.C. in 1872, he issued the president a warning.

That president was Ulysses S. Grant, and it happened while he was in office. In 1872, President Grant was speeding down a Washington, D.C., street in his horse and buggy.