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 ...

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 ...

Built in 1885, the Ulysses S. Grant School is considered one of the city's oldest surviving public school buildings.

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 ...

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.

Why look back when we still have so far to go? As home to the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, Mississippi State University has assembled a staggering array of artifacts from the famed civil war ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Ryan P. Semmes, historian and Mississippi State Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library research director examines the far-reaching implications of Reconstruction in his first book ...

But after saying “There’s that damned Ulysses ... war’s final year by day’s end when they rose in a standing ovation for Curt Fields and Thomas Jessee, veteran portrayers of Grant ...

The South’s Army of Northern Virginia was in its final hours. The Union army, led by General Ulysses S ... At once, Grant sent out the order, “The war is over; the rebels are our countrymen ...

Soon, Grant began courting Julia Dent, Fred's sister. The two quickly fell in love. In 1844 Julia accepted Ulysses' marriage proposal. But before they could marry, Ulysses went off to war for the ...