As Union General Ulysses S. Grant pushed southward from Tennessee into Oxford, Mississippi, in December 1862, he felt the pressure of the Southern cotton economy closing around him.

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 ...

Tom King, a former Enid High School history teacher and Chautauqua scholar, came into his study of Ulysses S. Grant, a Civil ...

A Visit with Ulysses S. Grant” will be offered twice on President’s Day, Monday, Feb. 17, at noon and 6:30 p.m. at the Union ...

18th US President and famed Union general Ulysses S. Grant was an Odd Fellow. That is, he belonged to a society known as the Independent Order of Odd Fellows .

Ulysses S. Grant, our 18th president, entered the earthly stage as Hiram Ulysses Grant. When his name was mistakenly entered on the West Point register as Ulysses Simpson Grant, he eagerly ...

The Harlan-Lincoln House Museum https://www.harlanlincoln.org was originally the home of Sen. James Harlan whose daughter ...

Tom King will portray Union general and President Ulysses S. Grant at Winter Chautauqua on Feb. 1, 2025, at Northwestern Oklahoma State University-Enid.

For nearly two weeks in 1864 the titans fo the Civil War Union General Ulysses S Grant and Confederate General Robert E Lee classed violently at the crossroads of Spotsylvania Courthouse Virginia ...

For much of his life, Ulysses ... general. No soldier since George Washington had held the rank. As commander, Grant worked to constantly occupy Robert E. Lee's rebel army in the East, while ...

An attempt to cut down on the illegal cotton trade, Grant’s decision, announced on this day in 1862, was immensely controversial and hounded him for years Eli Wizevich The Union general directly ...