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.

Grant, author Ron Chernow drops an interesting, if relatively unimportant, local tidbit about the Civil War hero and ... anecdote the 2011 book “Grant’s Final Victory: Ulysses S.

He was under orders to scout a suitable site for a military post, a mission personally approved by President Ulysses S. Grant ... over politics since the Civil War. After Belknap usurped the ...

The Union army, led by General Ulysses S. Grant, had relentlessly pursued the ... fought on American soil was coming to an end. The Civil War was entering its fifth year. Nothing in America ...

“Grant’s approach to Reconstruction was more than a domestic policy—it was an international movement,” Semmes said. “His ...

Attempting to be apolitical, Grant campaigned on the complacency-signaling slogan “Let us have peace.” Challenges: As for all post-Civil War presidents, the dominant issues in governance at the time ...

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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 started in 1861, Grant once again became a soldier.