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 ...

The narrative focuses on the Federal assault of the principal Confederate works and fortifications on May 17-22, 1862 by the Union Army of Tennessee commanded by Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant against the ...

Albert Cashier, an Irish immigrant who came to America sometime before the Civil War, watched the 15th Illinois Infantry Regiment march off to join Ulysses S. Grant ... in the Union Army and ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - We turn now to “Unconditional Surrender Grant.” Before Ulysses ... the army and worked a ...

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union Army in the Civil War and a future president of the United States, and David G. Farragut, the Navy’s first admiral, were among the pallbearers who ...

Lee’s surrender of his 28,000 Confederate troops to Union General Ulysses S ... Ulysses S. Grant before surrendering to the Commanding General of the U.S. Army at Appomattox Court House.

Ulysses S. Grant was born. U ... As commander, Grant worked to constantly occupy Robert E. Lee's rebel army in the East, while Union troops struck at the heart of the South, destroying homes ...

An attempt to cut down on the illegal cotton trade, Grant’s decision, announced on this day in 1862, was immensely controversial and hounded him for years Eli Wizevich The Union general directly ...