Ulysses S. Grant was born. U. S. Grant showed little promise at West Point. Although relatively well educated, he studied little. He stood out in mathematics and horsemanship, which had always ...

Ulysses S. Grant and his Generals on horseback. 1865, Library of Congress. As a cadet at West Point, Ulysses S. Grant was an indifferent student. But as a young soldier in the Mexican War ...

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 ...

Grant Public domain via Wikimedia Commons As Union General Ulysses S. Grant pushed southward from Tennessee into Oxford, Mississippi, in December 1862, he felt the pressure of the Southern cotton ...

If he does, the visit will come 140 years after Ulysses S Grant was the first American president to tour Scotland. Like Trump, Grant was a Washington outsider, despised by Democrats and many ...

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 ...