As Union General Ulysses S ... and his future political career. Grant’s order responded to an unsettling economic reality: Despite the war raging around them, Southern planters still wanted ...

General in Chief of the Union Army and U.S. President Ulysses ... Grant's memoirs, completed only days before his death, are considered among the best of any written about the Civil War.

Ulysses S Grant was the biggest hero of the Civil War. Johnny Clem might well have been the smallest. Ten years old when he ran away from home and joined the second Michigan Regiment, the drummer ...

a map-maker for the Union Army during the American Civil War. The Battle of Cold Harbor was one of the final battles of Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign, a series of battles fought ...

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

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 ...

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

Attempting to be apolitical, Grant campaigned on the complacency-signaling slogan “Let us have peace.” Challenges: As for all post-Civil War presidents, the dominant issues in governance at the time ...

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.

An attempt to cut down on the illegal cotton trade, Grant’s decision ... institution before and during the Civil War John Reeves How One Robber Baron's Gamble on Railroads Brought Down His ...