He was under orders to scout a suitable site for a military post, a mission personally approved by President Ulysses S. Grant, but he also brought along two prospectors, outfitted at his expense.

Next, students view and analyze three video clips that explain the events that led to Ulysses Grant’s inauguration as president. From there, students learn about the first 100 days of Ulysses ...

Ulysses S. Grant’s first inaugural ball in 1869 ended in upper-class chaos. The workers running the coat-check mixed up all the claims, leading to fights and tears among the guests trying to ...

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 a soldier, General Ulysses S. Grant had depended upon the able ... and favored their extermination. But not Grant. At his inauguration, Grant said that he would "favor any course toward ...

The carriage that Ulysses S. Grant rode to his second inauguration is one of 900 items in the exhibition "The American Presidency." Smithsonian National Museum of American History As much as the ...

Woodrow Wilson’s first inauguration in 1913 was the warmest with a noon temperature of 55 degrees. Ulysses S. Grant’s second inauguration in 1873 was the coldest at 16 degrees, with a wind ...

Perhaps no state did more to advance and propel the career of Ulysses S. Grant than Mississippi. Thus, it stands to reason that his memoirs are housed at Mississippi State – one of only six ...

Ulysses Grant's father Jesse could pinch a penny as well ... She never visited Washington during her son's presidency — not even for his inauguration. After the death of her husband, Hannah ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Ryan P. Semmes, historian and Mississippi State Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library research director examines the far-reaching implications of Reconstruction in his first book ...

Ulysses S. Grant, who lived here with his wife, family and enslaved workers in the 1850s. A large portion of the original 850-acre estate was sold off to the Busch family and now operates as Grant ...