Ulysses S. Grant and his Generals on horseback ... wounded men who were too hurt to crawl away. When the two-day battle ended, Grant had lost almost 18,000 men -- 6,000 more than Lee had.

As a soldier, General Ulysses S. Grant had depended upon the able assistance ... Custer distinguished himself in several Civil War battles. After the war, he went West, where he led the Seventh ...

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 ...

A pastor told the story of how the congregation drove drug dealers from Des Moines' Drake neighborhood. But it replaced them ...

Before Ulysses S. Grant became the 18th president - He was ... He participated in nearly every major battle of the Mexican-American War - including the capture of Mexico City in 1847.

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 ...

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An attempt to cut down on the illegal cotton trade, Grant’s decision, announced on this day in 1862, was immensely controversial and hounded him for years Eli Wizevich The Union general directly ...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville history professor Erik Alexander talked about what America was like in 1869 and provided an overview of the early months of President Ulysses Grant's ...

April 9 marks the 159th Anniversary of the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse and Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s surrender of his 28,000 Confederate troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Ryan P. Semmes, historian and Mississippi State Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library research director examines the far-reaching implications of Reconstruction in his first book ...

Ulysses S. Grant, who lived here with his wife, family and enslaved workers in the 1850s. A large portion of the original 850-acre estate was sold off to the Busch family and now operates as Grant ...