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Ulysses Simpson Grant ( 27 April 1822 - 23 July 1885 ), born Hiram Ulysses Grant , was the Commanding General of Union army during the American Civil War and 18th President of the United States . Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Personal Memoirs of General U. S....
Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885), having led the Northern armies to victory in the Civil War, was elected eighteenth president of the United States. As a general in the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant possessed the right qualities for prosecuting...
(b. April 27, 1822; d. July 23, 1885) General; eighteenth president of the United States (1869–1877). Ulysses S. Grant was born at Point Pleasant, Ohio, and became an officer in the U.S. Army after graduating from West Point in 1843. He was...
"Let us have peace," declared Ulysses S. Grant in a letter in which he accepted the Republican Party nomination for president. The Civil War (1861-65) had ended four years earlier. Outgoing president Andrew Johnson (1808-1875; see entry in volume 2) had...
Born April 27, 1822Point Pleasant, Ohio Died July 23, 1885Mount McGregor, New York U.S. president, Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant. . "The country having just...
Born April 27, 1822 Point Pleasant, Ohio Died July 23, 1885 Mount McGregor, New York Union general who captured Vicksburg and defeated Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, ending the Civil War Eighteenth president of the United...
Ulysses S. Grant,[2] born Hiram Ulysses Grant (April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885), was an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869–1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the...
A Conservative Commander Who Saved the Union Redeeming Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant (American Presidents Series) By Joshua Bunting ill Times Books, 2004 $20.00, 208 pp. For a century and a half, Ulysses S. Grant's reputation as a commander has been whittled...
IN LESS THAN TWO decades, Ulysses S. Grant made and lost a fortune, was spurned as a drunken fool, and saluted as a national hero. The peaks and valleys in the life of the man who became the winning general of the Civil War...
Fred Thompson, edging toward a presidential run, is giving up his day job playing a prosecutor on the TV series "Law & Order."Thompson asked Wednesday to be released from the show after five seasons, series creator and executive producer Dick Wolf said."Although he told me...
Slain al-Qaida in Iraq chief Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was a "diabolically brilliant" war tactician, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said, likening the terror commander to Civil War generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant.Zarqawi's successors are less talented, and less able to manage what...
General Ulysses S. Grant was loveable and of good reputation. There seemed to be a charming side to his warlike endurance. He thrived in kindness and generosity, and if there was anything especially hard for him to manage, it was the sight of human suffering. Lee's great contribution to the art of war was his understanding of the part field defenses could play in aiding maneuver. In this, he was years ahead of his time, and it was not until the beginning of the 20th century that his methods were really unde
