By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, April 9, the 99th day of 2025. There are 266 days left in the year. Today in ...

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 ...

April 9th has witnessed numerous significant events throughout history, spanning a variety of categories including politics, ...

He was under orders to scout a suitable site for a military post, a mission personally approved by President Ulysses S. Grant ... Crook was bloodied at the Battle of the Rosebud on June 17 ...

Could Union general Ulysses S. Grant score a victory in this theater and retake the initiative? The Battle of Chattanooga was a solid military victory for the Union that re-established its ...

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.

White President Ulysses S. Grant placed a high priority on the welfare ... Democratic politicians sounded the battle cry of electing a “white man’s government” to gain control of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Grant's Farm was built by Civil War Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who settled on the land in 1855 to farm and raise cattle. In 1903, August A. Busch Sr. bought the land, and ever since it has belonged to ...