He was under orders to scout a suitable site for a military post, a mission personally approved by President Ulysses S ... The Grant administration launched an illegal war and then lied to ...

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 ...

President Grant gave the pen he used to sign the 15th Amendment to a fellow Civil War veteran, Herbert Preston. Copyright © 2017 by Wendel A. White President Ulysses ...

It seems like Almost Yesterday that the city of Ironton, Missouri installed a series of historical markers to identify Civil ...

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 ...

By when had the last of the southern states “rejoined the Union” after the Civil War? Clip #11: Vice President and First Lady (2:21). Who was Ulysses Grant’s first vice president and what ...

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 ...

U.S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States (POTUS) and a Union General of the American Civil War. He returned home ... are noted during the tour. Ulysses S. Grant was an important ...

By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, April 9, the 99th day of 2025. There are 266 days left in the year. Today in history: On April 9, 1865, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army ...

S. Grant on the list. Rather than risk refusal, young Grant changed his name ... But before they could marry, Ulysses went off to war for the first time. In later years, Grant wrote that the ...