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 ...

General in Chief of the Union Army and U.S. President Ulysses ... Grant's memoirs, completed only days before his death, are considered among the best of any written about the Civil War.

One hundred sixty years ago, at Spotsylvania Courthouse, Ulysses S. Grant was looking for some kind of breakthrough against ...

Challenges: As for all post-Civil War presidents, the dominant issues in governance at the time of Ulysses S. Grant’s tenure were related to the South and African-American civil rights. Reconstruction ...

He was under orders to scout a suitable site for a military post, a mission personally approved by President Ulysses S. Grant ... an illegal war and then lied to Congress and the American people ...

Join us on a special visit to the historic Galena, Illinois home of Ulysses S. Grant—Civil War general and 18th President of the United States. This well-preserved house reveals the private life of ...

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

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - We turn now to “Unconditional Surrender Grant.” Before Ulysses ... at his father’s leather store. Years later, at the onset of the Civil War, Grant took ...

On both sides, the Civil ... Museum of American History General William T. Sherman's sword and scabbard National Museum of American History General Sheridan's Horse "Winchester" AKA "Rienzi" National ...

As a general he had fought to preserve the Union As president he helped to oversee the transformation from union to nation As a former president he was the embodiment of the very idea of national ...

“Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War.” The book challenges the traditional narrative that the Civil War ended neatly in April 1865 with the surrender of General Robert Lee to ...

The Civil War began when the Confederates bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861.