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).
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…
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…
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…