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 ...

Editor’s note: After this article was published, Stony Ford co-owner Susan Brinson provided the strongest evidence yet that Ulysses S ... rocker in which General Grant smoked his last cigar.’ ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Southern Illinois University Edwardsville history professor Erik Alexander talked about what America was like in 1869 and provided an overview of the ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - We turn now to “Unconditional Surrender Grant.” Before Ulysses S ... Lincoln appointed him General-in-Chief of the Union Army in 1864. For the remainder ...

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 ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

Ulysses S. Grant against the Confederate Army of Vicksburg commanded ... Smith also skillfully covers the poor performance by Union generals William T. Sherman, James B. McPherson, and John A.

Ulysses S. Grant and the Union Army. Born in Ireland ... photographers, and the general public alike.

I’m not arguing that presidents shouldn’t fire generals ... Before he found his way to Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln fired a number of Union commanders for poor performance.

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 ...

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 ...