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 ...

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. Smuggling and ...

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 ...

Thousands of mourners accompanied Grant's tomb through New York City. New York Historical Society. As Ulysses S. Grant's funeral procession made its way through New York City on August 8 ...

We will open with Jimmy Carter and end with Ulysses S. Grant. Georgia has a rich Jewish history which, in more modern times, includes the Taub family. Two of my older siblings were born in ...

Grant's Farm was built by Civil War Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who settled on the land in 1855 to farm and raise cattle. In 1903, August A. Busch Sr. bought the land, and ever since it has belonged to ...

Ulysses S. Grant, who lived here with his wife, family and enslaved workers in the 1850s. A large portion of the original 850-acre estate was sold off to the Busch family and now operates as Grant ...

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

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.