American Civil War, Western Theater, Vicksburg Campaign. The Battle of Raymond occurred on May 12, 1863, during Ulysses S. Grant’s campaign…
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The April 27, 2022, ceremony at Grant’s Tomb for Ulysses S. Grant’s 200th birthday will be broadcast on C-SPAN 2…
Mexican-American War, Resaca de la Palma, today near Brownsville, Texas. On May 9, 1846, the day after the Battle of…
For those who were unable to attend the April 27, 2022, ceremony at Grant’s Tomb for Ulysses S. Grant’s 200th…
Point Pleasant, Ohio, U.S.A. Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) was born on this day, April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio….
For events at the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site (St. Louis, Missouri), click here. For events at the General…
Register now on Eventbrite for the free, Tuesday, April 26, 10:30 a.m. (EDT), livestream of the U.S. Capitol commemoration of…
Image below: matted illustration by Thomas Nast (1840–1902) of a seated Ulysses S. Grant (27 April 1822–23 July 1885), smoking…
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)…
Ulysses S. Grant’s father, Jesse Root Grant, was a self-made man. He held strong abolitionist views. He provided well for…
Civil War, Western Theater. 160 years ago today, on April 6, 1862, a Sunday, the two-day Battle of Shiloh erupted—the…
Sources are added as they are consulted. Achenbach, Joel. “U.S. Grant Was the Great Hero of the Civil War but…
April 27, 1822. Grant is born in Point Pleasant, Ohio, to Jesse Root Grant and Hannah Simpson Grant, and named…
Penniless Addict Becomes President of the United States It was 1854, and Ulysses S. Grant was broke, unemployed, trapped in…
FAQs — Frequently Asked Questions About Ulysses S. Grant Who was Ulysses S. Grant? Grant was both the victorious commanding…