President Grant gave the pen he used to sign the 15th Amendment to a fellow Civil War veteran, Herbert Preston. Copyright © 2017 by Wendel A. White President Ulysses ...

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 ...

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

Clip #4: Relationship with Predecessor (4:18). What “new title” was Ulysses Grant given by Congress at the end of the Civil War and what was he responsible for? With what had Grant and other ...

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.