Take a historic tour inside the preserved home of General Ulysses S. Grant, exploring the rooms, artifacts, and stories of ...
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How One Maneuver Ended the Civil War

This video depicts the pivotal moments when General Ulysses S. Grant outmaneuvered Robert E. Lee, signaling the beginning of ...
Ulysses S. Grant is often dismissed as a simple butcher of his troops. In fact, Grant was an inspired military leader with a genius for issuing lucid orders, maneuvering his troops adroitly, and ...
Ulysses S. Grant was first elected President in 1868, as a Republican, from the state of Illinois. According to an old college history textbook, “Grant’s military triumphs during the Civil War did ...
Jeffrey Rosen, lawyer and U.S. Constitution scholar, has written the second book in a series of constitutional contemplations, “The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting ...
Newsweek published its list of top presidential attractions as voted on by readers. Coming in at No. 2 is Grant Cottage State ...
Few figures played a more important role in our nation’s history than Ulysses S. Grant. The commanding general of the Union forces during the Civil War, Grant would go on to become president of the ...
Dubbed the "Angel's Glow" by Civil War soldiers doctors reported that those with glowing wounds had lower infection rates and ...
"We were as brothers," Sherman said, describing his relationship to Grant, a friendship forged on the battlefield. They were prewar failures--Grant, forced to resign from the Army because of his ...
Two men who served as the nation's chief executive visited Lake Tahoe and Nevada in the late 1800s: President Ulysses S. Grant, who was not a sitting president at the time of his visit, and President ...