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This video offers a historic walkthrough of Ulysses S. Grant’s residence in Galena, IL, where he lived after the Civil War.
For much of his life, Ulysses S. Grant failed at every occupation he tried. But in the United States Army, his remarkable talents as a soldier and leader saved his country from falling apart. Born ...
As Union General Ulysses S. Grant pushed southward from Tennessee into Oxford, Mississippi, in December 1862, he felt the pressure of the Southern cotton economy closing around him. Smuggling and ...
Even Ulysses S. Grant, the greatest military leader of the war years, manages to go behind a cloud of corruption and indifference when he succeeds Johnson in the presidency in 1869.
The Mexican-American War: Photos from the 1800s show a young nation's conflict Prominent American Civil War Generals Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and Stonewall Jackson were among those who ...
The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.
Heartland’s Tim Benson is once again joined by Fergus M. Bordewich to discuss his new book, Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction.They chat about the formation of the Ku ...
The Cumberland Mountain Civil War Roundtable will present a special July program at the Palace Theater July 16 at 6 p.m.
MARIETTA — A special meeting of the Civil War Round Table of the Mid-Ohio Valley will be 7 p.m. Thursday, May 22, at First Congregational Church, 318 Front St., Marietta. The presentation will ...
Curt Fields, who has portrayed Grant in 22 states, will discuss the successes and failures of Grant’s two terms as president, which spanned 1869-1877, according to an announcement. Grant was ...
Issued from his headquarters in Oxford, Grant’s General Order s No. 11 read that “the Jews, as a class, violating every regulation of trade established by the Treasury Department, and also ...
Fergus M. Bordewich’s "KLAN WAR: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction," a stunning account of President Grant’s federal campaign against the Ku Klux Klan from 1865 and onward.