Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. On April 9, 1865, General Ulysses S. Grant and General Robert E. Lee met in the home of Wilmer McLean at Appomattox ...
As they paraded by him for the first time in March of 1864, soldiers of the Army of the Potomac knew the general in full dress blues, accented with sash and sword, was the freshly minted commander of ...
The Civil War general was elevated to general of the armies of the United States, a title his admirers had long sought. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Thursday. Today we’ll find out about a recent ...
139 years ago, the hero of the American Civil War and the 18th president of the United States died in a rustic house on a mountain a few miles north of Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Ulysses Simpson Grant had ...
The 12th annual Ulysses S. Grant Symposium will be held Friday, Nov. 7, at Kellerman-Lorimier Hall in Cape Girardeau, featuring three Grant experts and a tribute to the late Frank Nickell. According ...
Ulysses S. Grant was not quite 40 in April 1861 when Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, beginning the Civil War. Grant, a West Point graduate and Mexican American War veteran, had resigned from the ...