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 ... we have given the old slave-holders forty votes in the electoral college. They keep those votes, but disfranchise the ...

Perhaps no state did more to advance and propel the career of Ulysses S. Grant than Mississippi. Thus, it stands to reason that his memoirs are housed at Mississippi State – one of only six ...

STARKVILLE — Mississippi State University is home to the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, a massive collection of correspondence, research notes, artifacts, photographs and memorabilia by ...

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

By the time he confronted Ulysses S. Grant in 1864, the drain upon his manpower ... After the war, Lee accepted the presidency of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia, where he died on ...