An attempt to cut down on the illegal cotton trade, Grant’s decision, announced on this day in 1862, was immensely ...

Ulysses S. Grant continued the American tradition of electing military figures as presidents—those men who led and won key battles in war. Attempting to be apolitical, Grant campaigned on the ...

General in Chief of the Union Army and U.S. President Ulysses ... Grant's memoirs, completed only days before his death, are considered among the best of any written about the Civil War.

An attempt to cut down on the illegal cotton trade, Grant’s decision ... institution before and during the Civil War John Reeves How One Robber Baron's Gamble on Railroads Brought Down His ...

Ulysses then moved his family to Galena, Illinois, where he took a job as a clerk in his father's leather goods shop. Shortly after the Civil War ... American of his time. In city after city ...

Union Gen. William T. Sherman completed his Civil War "march to the sea" across the South and arrived in Savannah, Ga.

As the deadliest war in United States history, the Civil War is a period many would like to forget. However, it’s impossible ...

If he does, the visit will come 140 years after Ulysses S Grant was the first American ... officer of the Northern Armies during the American Civil War. He defeated the Confederate forces of ...

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