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. Grant did in fact smoke a cigar at the Goshen estate in ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - We turn now to “Unconditional Surrender Grant.” Before Ulysses S. Grant became the 18th president - He was named Hiram Ulysses Grant, but when he entered the ...

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 ...

U.S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States (POTUS) and a Union General of the American Civil War. He returned home to Galena, IL after the war where he and his wife, Julia Dent Grant ...

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 ...

Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2020. Pp. xx, 48. Illus., maps, appends, notes, index. $34.95. ISBN: 0700629068 Grant Attempts to Storm Vicksburg Timothy B. Smith’s latest book describes the ...

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.

Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2012. Pp. xiv, 196. Maps, notes., biblio., index. $32.50. ISBN: 0813136776 The Leadership of Ulysses S. Grant is ...

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 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.