Ulysses S. Grant and his Generals on horseback. 1865, Library of Congress. As a cadet at West Point, Ulysses S. Grant was an indifferent student. But as a young soldier in the Mexican War, he had ...

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 ...

For much of his life, Ulysses S. Grant failed at every ... a surprise Confederate attack at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee. His capture of the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi on July 4, 1863 ...

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 ...

By exploring Grant’s military command through the crucible of the battlefields at Belmont, Shiloh, and the Vicksburg Campaign, the author makes the case that those very characteristics that Grant ...