Years later, in 1869, Grant became a U.S. president like his former Commander-in-Chief Lincoln had done, setting a precedent ...

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For ...

He was under orders to scout a suitable site for a military post, a mission personally approved by President Ulysses ... the general’s command prerogatives with no objection from Grant, Sherman ...

It seems like Almost Yesterday that the city of Ironton, Missouri installed a series of historical markers to identify Civil ...

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 ...

Even though Georgetown was the county seat in the early 1800s, it was little more than a small frontier town. Its population was just a few hundred. Everybody knew everybody else, as is basically ...

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 ...

White President Ulysses S. Grant placed a high priority on the welfare ... In the words of Adam Badeau, an Army officer who had served on the general’s wartime staff and later became Grant ...

Students at Galva Junior-Senior High School met virtually with Ulysses Grant Dietz, a great-great-grandson of the 18th U.S. President Ulysses ... about the Civil War general and president than ...

April 9 marks 160 years of the anniversary of when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at ...

A depiction of General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox. A depiction of General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox. HUM Images—Universal Images Group/Getty Images On March 27, President Donald Trump ...