The badge features a tintype photograph of Ulysses S. Grant set into a brass frame, which would have originally been attached to a pin and displayed on clothing. Location Currently not on view Credit ...

Ulysses S. Grant was considered a washed-up veteran of the Mexican War, but his succession of victories along the Mississippi River and the end of the siege of Vicksburg elevated Grant to commander of ...

Amos Akerman may be the most consequential attorney general you’ve never heard of. Under President Ulysses S. Grant he gave federal teeth to the new 14th Amendment, personally leading a ...