American Civil War, Western Theater, Vicksburg campaign. On July 4, 1863, the Confederate garrison in Vicksburg, Mississippi, surrendered to Major…
Ulysses S. Grant
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…
From Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant (1885): The framers were wise in their generation and wanted to do the very…
American Civil War, Western Theater, Vicksburg campaign. On June 25, 1863, commander of the U.S. Army of the Tennessee, Major…
American Civil War, Western Theatre, Vicksburg campaign. By June 24, 1863, the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, had lasted some 33…
Washington, D.C., President Grant’s first term. On June 22, 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant signed into law the creation of…
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….
June 14 is Flag Day each year in the U.S.A. It is not a holiday. But as of President Woodrow…
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…
Washington, D.C. On May 20, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed into law the Homestead Act. (Text of the act here.)…
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…
Georgetown, Ohio. Ulysses S. Grant’s boyhood. Brooks D. Simpson in his biography Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity (2014), describes…
American Civil War, Western Theater, Vicksburg Campaign. The Battle of Raymond, Mississippi, on May 12, 1863, altered Major General Ulysses…
Artist Kevin Miller’s three-scene mural of Ulysses S. Grant adorns a streetwall of 120 South Main Street in Georgetown, Ohio,…