Ulysses S. Grant is of profound importance in the history of the American Civil War. From relatively early on in…
Ulysses S. Grant
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,…
The then-largest public gathering in American history—some 1.5 million people—lined the streets of New York City on August 8, 1885,…
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 8, 1876, whites massacred freedmen in South Carolina. Ron Chernow in Grant (2017) summarizes: [On July 4, 1876,…
On July 25, 1866, Congress created the rank of “General of the Army of the United States” and promoted Ulysses…
The Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site’s website article, “An Interview with Mary Robinson, Formerly Enslaved at White Haven,” explains…
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. Tower Bridge envy tempted America even before London’s iconic structure finished stretching across the Thames. An April 2016…
The YouTube account Life in the 1800s posted 1947 enhanced audio of Julius Franklin Howell (January 17, 1846–June 19, 1948),…
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,…