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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...