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 ...

Col. ELY S. PARKER, Indian Sachem and Chief of the Tonawanda tribe and Seneca Nation of Indians, who is now a member of Gen. GRANT's staff, writes as follows from Chattanooga: "I need not describe ...

Grant rose from comparative obscurity to become general in chief of the Union army ... are considered among the best of any written about the Civil War.

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As a soldier, General Ulysses S. Grant had depended upon ... failing to stop a fight between two cadets. But by then the Civil War had broken out, and the Army needed all the officers it could ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.