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1 day ago · A comprehensive biography of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States and a prominent Civil War general. Learn about his early life, military career, political achievements, scandals, and legacy.
1 day ago · The presidency of Ulysses S. Grant began on March 4, 1869, when Ulysses S. Grant was inaugurated as the 18th president of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1877. The Reconstruction era took place during Grant's two terms of office.
Jul 10, 2024 · Index to the content of the Ulysses S. Grant Information Center. Find material on nearly every aspect of Grant's life. Grant was highly adept in mathematics and hoped to make it his career.
Jul 10, 2024 · As the hero of the Civil War, and as President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant won international fame. Indeed, he was the most popular man on the planet in the 1860s to the 1880s. Few people today, however, know much about the personal side of him.
Jul 10, 2024 · Ulysses S. Grant was a devoted family man. He and his wife Julia had four children and were fortunate not to lose any of them to an early death, as was so often in the case in those days of untreatable diseases and lack of medical care we take for granted today.
Jul 7, 2024 · Captain Ulysses S. Grant, an obscure army officer who was expelled for alcohol abuse in 1854, rose to become general-in-chief of the United States Army in 1864. What accounts for this astonishing turn-around during this extraordinary decade? Was it destiny?
Jul 4, 2024 · Ulysses S. Grant started as a clerk in his family’s store at the beginning of the Civil War and quickly rose to the rank of commander of the entire Union Army. Today on The 21st, we’re discussing Grant’s life, including his time in Illinois, where he worked in his father’s leather goods business in Galena.
