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 ...

President Grant gave the pen he used to sign the 15th Amendment to a fellow Civil War veteran, Herbert Preston. Copyright © 2017 by Wendel A. White President Ulysses ...

Students at Galva Junior-Senior High School met virtually with Ulysses Grant Dietz ... started out cause I was in Grant’s ...

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 ...

Such positions also made for a difficult relationship with President Ulysses S. Grant. Born in Boston on ... In a Senate speech in May 1856, he blasted the bill. Sumner accused the bill's authors ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Ryan P. Semmes, historian and Mississippi State Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library research director examines the far-reaching implications of Reconstruction in his first book ...

But when Garfield delivered his speech to the Republican Convention ... The Stalwarts wanted former president Ulysses S. Grant to be the party's candidate once again. Although Grant was personally ...