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).
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…
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…