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FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - We turn now to “Unconditional Surrender Grant.” Before Ulysses S. Grant became the 18th president - He was named Hiram Ulysses Grant, but when he entered the ...
Join us as we take a rare look inside the home of U.S. Grant - Civil War hero and the 18th President of the United States. Located in Galena, Illinois, this house preserves the personal belongings and ...
A soft greenish sentimentality was adrift in the air. Ulysses Simpson Grant III walked out of the long flat Navy building, sniffed the sweet air, drove to the Tidal Basin, examined the cherry tree ...
For much of his life, Ulysses S. Grant failed at every occupation he tried. But in the United States Army, his remarkable talents as a soldier and leader saved his country from falling apart.
He was under orders to scout a suitable site for a military post, a mission personally approved by President Ulysses S. Grant, but he also brought along two prospectors, outfitted at his expense.
At age 27 Jesse married Hannah Simpson Grant. A year later, Jesse's first son, Hiram Ulysses Grant, was born. At the time, fathers often took their sons into business with them. Jesse Grant was ...
Roosevelt referred to an earlier American experience of unconditional surrender: “Some of you Britishers know the old story — we had a General called U.S. Grant. His name was Ulysses Simpson Grant but ...
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 ...
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 ...