President Grant gave the pen he used to sign the 15th Amendment to a fellow Civil War veteran, Herbert Preston. Copyright © 2017 by Wendel A. White President Ulysses ...

Audio Transcription: What does it mean to preserve history? Why look back when we still have so far to go? As home to the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, Mississippi State University has ...

Join us as we take a rare look inside the home of U.S. Grant - Civil War hero and the 18th President of the United States. Located in Galena, Illinois, this house preserves the personal belongings and ...

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 ...

For much of his life, Ulysses S ... Grant was the hero who had achieved the victory. In 1868, with the nation still struggling to heal the wounds of war, Grant accepted the Republican presidential ...

Before Ulysses S. Grant became the 18th president - He was named Hiram Ulysses Grant, but when he entered the United States Military Academy at West Point his name was miswritten as “Ulysses ...

STARKVILLE — Mississippi State University is home to the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, a massive collection of correspondence, research notes, artifacts, photographs and memorabilia by ...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville history professor Erik Alexander talked about what America was like in 1869 and provided an overview of the early months of President Ulysses Grant's ...

General in Chief of the Union Army and U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant rose from comparative obscurity to become general in chief of the Union army late in the war, securing victory by through ...