The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

Ulysses S. Grant was born. U. S ... Grant had finally found an arena where he could shine: the battlefield. In March 1864, a grateful Abraham Lincoln appointed Grant commander of all the U.S ...

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 ...

As Union General Ulysses S. Grant pushed southward from Tennessee into Oxford, Mississippi, in December 1862, he felt the pressure of the Southern cotton economy closing around him. Smuggling and ...

This nearly 10-acre site is dedicated to the U.S. Civil War general and two-term U.S. president, Ulysses S. Grant, who lived here with his wife, family and enslaved workers in the 1850s.

An attempt to cut down on the illegal cotton trade, Grant’s decision, announced on this day in 1862, was immensely controversial and hounded him for years Eli Wizevich The Union general directly ...