Grant rose from comparative obscurity to become general in chief of the Union army ... are considered among the best of any written about the Civil War.

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 ...

Grant, author Ron Chernow drops an interesting, if relatively unimportant, local tidbit about the Civil War hero and 18th president ... Boston rocker in which General Grant smoked his last cigar.’ ...

Attempting to be apolitical, Grant campaigned on the complacency-signaling slogan “Let us have peace.” Challenges: As for all post-Civil War presidents, the dominant issues in governance at the time ...

Students at Galva Junior-Senior High School met virtually with Ulysses Grant Dietz, a great-great-grandson of the 18th U.S.

Grant's election to the presidency ... who had been a Confederate general during the Civil War. White Southerners from all classes of society joined the Klan's ranks. In the name of preserving ...

portrayed then-Major General Grant after the Uni… Historians discussed President Lincoln’s views on race and slavery. This was part of the Gettysburg College Civil War In… Civil War Round ...

Also inscribed on the blade are “1861-1865,” marking the span of the Civil War, and “General Grant,” in tribute to Ulysses S. Grant, who was a leading Union general and the 18th president of the ...

Grant on May 16. Curt Fields ... Visit part of Cleveland Civil War Roundtable tour Fields is coming to Spiegel Grove as part of a tour of the Cleveland area in May arranged by the Cleveland ...

This nearly 10-acre site is dedicated to the U.S. Civil War general and two-term U.S. president, Ulysses S. Grant, who lived here with his wife, family and enslaved workers in the 1850s.