Ulysses S. Grant is of profound importance in the history of the American Civil War. From relatively early on in…
Grant, the Soldier
Content on Ulysses S. Grant Revealed relating to U.S. Grant's time in the United States Army, his antebellum years (1839–1854), including his participation in the Mexican-American War (1846–1848), and his Civil War and Reconstruction years (1861–1869), including his time as commanding general of the U.S. Army (1864–1869).
A guest blog-post by Andrew Lucien of The Civil War Center (thecivilwarcenter.com). Ulysses S. Grant has long been accused of…
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,…
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…
On July 25, 1866, Congress created the rank of “General of the Army of the United States” and promoted Ulysses…
American Civil War, Western Theater, 1861. On July 19, 1861, Colonel Ulysses S. Grant, commanding the 21st Illinois Volunteer Infantry…
Washington, D.C., after U.S. Grant’s Vicksburg campaign. On July 13, 1863, nine days after the Confederate garrison in Vicksburg, Mississippi,…
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…
Washington, D.C., Grant’s peacetime generalship. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and Major General Phil Sheridan took the U.S. a step…
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. On June 20, 1865, President Andrew Johnson asked the U.S. attorney general James Speed to order the U.S….
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…
American Civil War, Western Theater, Vicksburg campaign. Ulysses S. Grant’s May 19 and May 22 assaults on Vicksburg both failed. Ron…