The then-largest public gathering in American history—some 1.5 million people—lined the streets of New York City on August 8, 1885,…
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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…
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., 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,…
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…
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….