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.

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 ...

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

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 .

“Unconditional Surrender: A Visit with Ulysses S. Grant” will be offered twice on President’s Day, Monday, Feb. 17, at noon ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...