Ulysses S. Grant is of profound importance in the history of the American Civil War. From relatively early on in…
American Civil War
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…
American Civil War, Western Theater, Vicksburg campaign. On July 3, 1863, Ulysses S. Grant’s siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, reached its…
American Civil War, Eastern Theater, Gettysburg campaign. On July 1, 1863, concurrent with the final days of Ulysses S. Grant’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 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…
American Civil War, Western Theater, Vicksburg Campaign. With historical hindsight, we see that Ulysses S. Grant’s victory at the Battle…
American Civil War, Western Theater, Vicksburg Campaign. The Battle of Raymond, Mississippi, on May 12, 1863, altered Major General Ulysses…
American Civil War, Western Theater, Vicksburg Campaign. The Battle of Raymond occurred on May 12, 1863, during Ulysses S. Grant’s campaign…
Civil War, Western Theater. On April 25, 1862, the forces of Flag Officer David Glasgow Farragut seize New Orleans, Louisiana….
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)…
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…