He was under orders to scout a suitable site for a military post, a mission personally approved by President Ulysses S. Grant ... Chandler’s Michigan political machine, and he had served ...

The election, which pitted Republican Ulysses S. Grant against Democrat Horatio Seymour, was crucial. Republicans would continue programs that prevented Southern whites from gaining political ...

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 ...

Semmes, historian and Mississippi State Ulysses S ... career to researching and preserving U.S. political and military history. He earned a doctorate in history in 2020 from MSU, where his ...

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 ...