Revealed
"Nothing heroic…and yet the greatest hero.
The gods, the destinies, seem to have concentrated upon him."
- Walt Whitman, American poet, 1879
Ulysses S. Grant is of profound importance in the history of the American Civil War. From relatively early on in…
A guest blog-post by Andrew Lucien of The Civil War Center (thecivilwarcenter.com). Ulysses S. Grant has long been accused of…
The American Civil War (1861–1865) was a bloody civil war that pitted America’s majority Northern and border states loyal to…
Ulysses S. Grant was the victorious commanding general of the U.S. Army during the American Civil War (1861–1865) and the…
Here’s an intriguing discovery by E. Joseph Murphy of Scranton, Pennsylvania, which I gratefully discovered thanks to his Twitter account,…
The then-largest public gathering in American history—some 1.5 million people—lined the streets of New York City on August 8, 1885,…
On August 5, 1861, Congress approved President Abraham Lincoln’s July 31, 1861, request to designate to brigadier generalships more than…
In the summer of 1864, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant felt maddeningly inert facing the entrenched Confederate lines outside of…
Invocation for the Bicentennial Birthday of President Grant, Grant Monument Association dinner, April 27, 2022, Union League Club, New York…
On July 8, 1876, whites massacred freedmen in South Carolina. Ron Chernow in Grant (2017) summarizes: [On July 4, 1876,…
On July 25, 1866, Congress created the rank of “General of the Army of the United States” and promoted Ulysses…
The Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site’s website article, “An Interview with Mary Robinson, Formerly Enslaved at White Haven,” explains…
Ulysses S. Grant died at approximately 8:06 a.m., July 23, 1885. The 18th U.S. president and former general-in-chief of the…
Here you can see a video taken a few steps away from the historical marker at the Eastern Overlook of…
Mt. McGregor, New York. On July 19, 1885, photographer John G. Gilman for the Albany Journal, took the last known photograph…
American Civil War, Western Theater, 1861. On July 19, 1861, Colonel Ulysses S. Grant, commanding the 21st Illinois Volunteer Infantry…
Washington, D.C. Tower Bridge envy tempted America even before London’s iconic structure finished stretching across the Thames. An April 2016…
The YouTube account Life in the 1800s posted 1947 enhanced audio of Julius Franklin Howell (January 17, 1846–June 19, 1948),…
Washington, D.C., after U.S. Grant’s Vicksburg campaign. On July 13, 1863, nine days after the Confederate garrison in Vicksburg, Mississippi,…
Mount McGregor, NY. On July 11, 1885, Ulysses S. Grant, formerly General of the Army and President of the United…
American Civil War, Eastern Theater, Petersburg campaign. Ulysses S. Grant faced myriad frustrations in early July 1864, while waging siege-like…
American Civil War, Eastern Theater, Petersburg campaign. July 5, 1864, saw Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, stationed in City Point, Virginia,…
American Civil War, Western Theater, Vicksburg campaign. On July 4, 1863, the Confederate garrison in Vicksburg, Mississippi, surrendered to Major…
American Civil War, Western Theater, Vicksburg campaign. On July 3, 1863, Ulysses S. Grant’s siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, reached its…
Post-presidency, Long Branch, New Jersey. Even among Americans who enjoy U.S. history, few know that Ulysses S. Grant sought a third,…
American Civil War, Eastern Theater, Gettysburg campaign. On July 1, 1863, concurrent with the final days of Ulysses S. Grant’s…
Washington, D.C., Grant’s peacetime generalship. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and Major General Phil Sheridan took the U.S. a step…
New Haven, Connecticut. Please contact me if you can provide any informed conjecture or observation about the glass plate photo shown…
From Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant (1885): The framers were wise in their generation and wanted to do the very…
American Civil War, Western Theater, Vicksburg campaign. On June 25, 1863, commander of the U.S. Army of the Tennessee, Major…
American Civil War, Western Theatre, Vicksburg campaign. By June 24, 1863, the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, had lasted some 33…
Washington, D.C., President Grant’s first term. On June 22, 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant signed into law the creation of…
Today, the U.S. observes Juneteenth the federal holiday “suspended,” since Juneteenth proper, June 19, 2022, occurred on a Sunday. Yesterday,…
Washington, D.C. On June 20, 1865, President Andrew Johnson asked the U.S. attorney general James Speed to order the U.S….
Mount McGregor & New York City Harbor. On June 17, 1885, Ulysses S. Grant spent his first full day at…
New York City & Mount McGregor, NY. It was 1885, and 63-year-old Ulysses S. Grant, former commanding-general of the U.S….
June 14 is Flag Day each year in the U.S.A. It is not a holiday. But as of President Woodrow…
On the morning of June 12, 1864, the Washington, D.C.-based photographer Mathew Brady achieved the American Civil War’s best-known portrait…
American Civil War, Western Theatre, Vicksburg campaign. Before dawn on June 7, 1863, 1,500 Confederate soldiers from Texas attacked the…
Washington, D.C., U.S. Capitol. 2022 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the…
C-SPAN 2, New York City, Union League Club. The Grant Monument Association‘s Ulysses S. Grant bicentennial colloquy, which followed the…
American Civil War, Western Theater, Vicksburg campaign. Ulysses S. Grant’s May 19 and May 22 assaults on Vicksburg both failed. Ron…
American Civil War, Western Theater, Vicksburg campaign. Ulysses S. Grant’s May 19 and May 22 assaults on Vicksburg both failed,…
Civil War, Western Theater, Vicksburg campaign. On May 22, 1863, Major General Ulysses S. Grant ordered a second assault against the…
Washington, D.C. On May 20, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed into law the Homestead Act. (Text of the act here.)…
American Civil War, Western Theater, Vicksburg campaign. After his victories in route to his main objective of the Southern strategic…
Did you know that Ulysses S. Grant’s young son, Frederick Dent Grant, accompanied his father during portions of the American…
American Civil War, Western Theater, Vicksburg Campaign. With historical hindsight, we see that Ulysses S. Grant’s victory at the Battle…
Georgetown, Ohio. Ulysses S. Grant’s boyhood. Brooks D. Simpson in his biography Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity (2014), describes…
American Civil War, Western Theater, Vicksburg Campaign. The Battle of Raymond, Mississippi, on May 12, 1863, altered Major General Ulysses…
Artist Kevin Miller’s three-scene mural of Ulysses S. Grant adorns a streetwall of 120 South Main Street in Georgetown, Ohio,…
American Civil War, Western Theater, Vicksburg Campaign. The Battle of Raymond occurred on May 12, 1863, during Ulysses S. Grant’s campaign…
The April 27, 2022, ceremony at Grant’s Tomb for Ulysses S. Grant’s 200th birthday will be broadcast on C-SPAN 2…
Mexican-American War, Resaca de la Palma, today near Brownsville, Texas. On May 9, 1846, the day after the Battle of…
For those who were unable to attend the April 27, 2022, ceremony at Grant’s Tomb for Ulysses S. Grant’s 200th…
Point Pleasant, Ohio, U.S.A. Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) was born on this day, April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio….
Civil War, Western Theater. On April 25, 1862, the forces of Flag Officer David Glasgow Farragut seize New Orleans, Louisiana….
For events at the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site (St. Louis, Missouri), click here. For events at the General…
When you’re the 8th Green Machine (GM) Regiment Band that performs 19th-century brass ensemble music but it’s the pandemic fall…
Register now on Eventbrite for the free, Tuesday, April 26, 10:30 a.m. (EDT), livestream of the U.S. Capitol commemoration of…
Image below: matted illustration by Thomas Nast (1840–1902) of a seated Ulysses S. Grant (27 April 1822–23 July 1885), smoking…
I’ve lived in the West 70s in Manhattan for more than 20 years. It took me several years before I…
Washington, D.C. On April 14, 1865, U.S. president Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater in…
Louis L. Picone’s Grant’s Tomb: The Epic Death of Ulysses S. Grant and the Making of an American Pantheon (2021)…
Ulysses S. Grant’s father, Jesse Root Grant, was a self-made man. He held strong abolitionist views. He provided well for…
Civil War, Western Theater. 160 years ago today, on April 6, 1862, a Sunday, the two-day Battle of Shiloh erupted—the…
Civil War, Eastern Theater, Peninsula Campaign. On April 1, 1862, the movement of 12 divisions of Major General George B….
Sources are added as they are consulted. Achenbach, Joel. “U.S. Grant Was the Great Hero of the Civil War but…
April 27, 1822. Grant is born in Point Pleasant, Ohio, to Jesse Root Grant and Hannah Simpson Grant, and named…
Penniless Addict Becomes President of the United States It was 1854, and Ulysses S. Grant was broke, unemployed, trapped in…
FAQs — Frequently Asked Questions About Ulysses S. Grant Who was Ulysses S. Grant? Grant was both the victorious commanding…
