Ulysses S. Grant is one of those figures who's taken on a legendary status in American history — he was skillful enough as a Union Army leader during the Civil War that he's beloved despite his ...

Ulysses S. Grant ... Lincoln had struggled to heal the wounds of war, yet he became one of its last victims, ... Abraham Lincoln won election to the U.S. Congress in 1846.

In a little known but far more serious episode, Gen. Grant issued General Order No. 11 on Dec. 17, 1862, expelling all Jews from the states of Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi.

On this day in history, Ulysses S. Grant, ... APRIL 15, 1865, PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN PASSES AWAY. After marrying Julia Dent, the sister of a West Point classmate, in 1848, ...

Black Community: Ulysses S. Grant’s Prophetic Warning ... Grant, who became president in 1869, was a progressive Republican in line with Abraham Lincoln. As the 18 th president, ...

“Abraham Lincoln was also looking for guests to join him here at Ford’s Theatre and one of those guests was General and future President Ulysses S. Grant,” said Garrett Kost, a park guide at ...

As Union General Ulysses S. Grant pushed southward from Tennessee into Oxford, Mississippi, in December 1862, he felt the ...

Williams Lecture commemorates 160th anniversary of Lincoln, Grant meeting. Contact: Pattye Archer STARKVILLE, Miss.—The 2024 Frank and Virginia Williams Lecture on Abraham Lincoln and Civil War ...

Here's Abraham Lincoln: And here's his 11th-generation cousin Ralph Lincoln: Here's President Thomas Jefferson: And here's Jefferson's sixth great-grandson Shannon LaNier: ... Ulysses S. Grant ...