Ulysses S. Grant was born. U. S ... Grant had finally found an arena where he could shine: the battlefield. In March 1864, a grateful Abraham Lincoln appointed Grant commander of all the U.S ...

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.

In the noonday heat of July 11, 1864, the commander of the battle ... four months after the advent of Ulysses S. Grant as the Federal General in Chief, and a month since Grant's armies had begun ...

Before Ulysses S. Grant became the 18th president - He was ... In response, Lincoln appointed him General-in-Chief of the Union Army in 1864. For the remainder of the war, Grant continued 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 ...

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“From 1861-1864, the major Eastern Theater armies fought battles and disengaged after each one. That pattern changed on the night of May 7. Instead of leaving the Wilderness to reorganize, Lt. Gen.

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 ...

He remained loyal to the Union despite his heritage as a Virginian, wasn't one of Ulysses S. Grant’s favorite officers ... in the Battle of Nashville (Dec. 15-16, 1864), crippling Hood’s forces, ...

The siege began on June 15, 1864 under the command of the Union’s new general-in-chief, Ulysses S. Grant, with a major battle ...