He was under orders to scout a suitable site for a military post, a mission personally approved by President Ulysses S ... military career, Grant was known as an aggressive commander, but not ...

Ulysses S. Grant was born. U ... In March 1864, a grateful Abraham Lincoln appointed Grant commander of all the U.S. armies, with the rank of lieutenant general. No soldier since George Washington ...

Economists define efficiency as maximizing an outcome per dollar, or resource spent. Given budget constraints, ...

Before Ulysses S. Grant became the 18th president ... When a Confederate commander attempted negotiations Grant stipulated that {quote} “no terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender ...

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union Army in the Civil War and a future president of the United States, and David G. Farragut, the Navy’s first admiral, were among the pallbearers who ...

Lee likewise rued over being able to only belatedly overrule a field commander’s failure ... Still, when a note arrives from Ulysses Grant suggesting Lee’s position is no longer tenable.

Stony Ford co-owner Susan Brinson provided the strongest evidence yet that Ulysses S. Grant did in fact smoke a cigar at the Goshen estate in his waning days. Grant historian Ben Kemp found ...

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 ...

Perhaps no state did more to advance and propel the career of Ulysses S. Grant than Mississippi. Thus, it stands to reason that his memoirs are housed at Mississippi State – one of only six ...