and not even Ulysses S. Grant had the power to prevent it. Allen C. Guelzo, a senior research scholar at Princeton University, is a Civil War historian and three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize.

(These were the largest battles of the Civil War.) For 47 days, Union forces led by Ulysses S. Grant fought an intense battle against an entrenched Confederate army at Vicksburg. But it wasn’t ...

Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox ... one of the bloodiest months in U.S. military history, with three major Civil War battles – each involving more than 100,000 engaged forces – taking place ...

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.

As Union General Ulysses S ... and his future political career. Grant’s order responded to an unsettling economic reality: Despite the war raging around them, Southern planters still wanted ...

WASHINGTON – At President Donald Trump’s campaign rallies, history usually begins at the 2016 election. But the president embarked on a lesson of the Civil War while speaking to an audience ...

The presentation will feature Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, portrayed by nationally acclaimed Civil War reenactor and ... observations of the Battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg ...

While Reading Brad Neely’s “You, Me, and Ulysses ... story of Sam Grant, as he was known before joining the army, mired in the stink of his father’s tannery, and miraculously elevated on the reeking ...

Beginning next year, April 27 will be celebrated as Ulysses S. Grant Day in the iconic Civil War general's home state of Ohio after legislation creating the recognition cleared the Legislature on ...

Tucked away in an amendment to the FY2023 U.S. defense authorization bill is a rare instance of congressional bipartisanship and a tribute to U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant. Anne Marshall in The ...