Professor Brooks Simpson talked about Union General Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign, which was a series of battles fought in Virginia during May and June of 1864 during the U.S. Civil War.

As winter melted into spring in March of 1864 President Abraham Lincoln would finally find the military commander who would end the Civil War, but at a staggering cost to the Western Massachusetts ...

In March 1864, a grateful Abraham Lincoln appointed Grant commander of all the U.S. armies, with the rank of lieutenant general. ... Ulysses S. Grant's father made a living tanning leather.

Before Ulysses S. Grant became the 18th president ... Lincoln appointed him General-in-Chief of the Union Army in 1864. For the remainder of the war, Grant continued to press the Union advance.

Unraveling Ulysses S. Grant’s Complex Relationship With Slavery ... In late January 1864, an enslaved woman named Jule liberated herself in Louisville, Kentucky, while en route to St. Louis.

March 11, 1864. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from March 11, 1864, Page 4 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine. ... DAVIS, and ULYSSES GRANT, ...

On this day in history, Ulysses S. Grant, a West Point graduate and the 18th president of the United States, died of throat cancer in New York at the age of 63.

Before Ulysses S. Grant became the 18th president ... Lincoln appointed him General-in-Chief of the Union Army in 1864. For the remainder of the war, Grant continued to press the Union advance.

A policeman apprehended Ulysses S. Grant for driving his horse and buggy too fast. ... 1864. According to BlackPast.org, West married Kathrine Bowie in 1867, ...

The Cumberland Mountain Civil War Roundtable will present a special July program at the Palace Theater July 16 at 6 p.m.

WASHINGTON — Ohio native Ulysses S. Grant ... on the battlefield led to President Abraham Lincoln appointing him Lieutenant-General of the United States Army in 1864. On April 9, 1865, Grant ...

Historians are hailing Congress' recent decision to promote Ulysses S. Grant to the ... Mr. Brown cited Grant’s war record and how the commander of the Union Army in 1864-65 constantly pressed ...