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Hace 2 días · Ulysses S. Grant, American general, Union army commander during the late years of the American Civil War, and 18th president of the United States. It was under his command that the Civil War was brought to an end with a Union victory.
- Simon B. Buckner
Simon Bolivar Buckner (born April 1, 1823, near...
- Julia Grant
Julia Grant (born January 26, 1826, near St. Louis,...
- Philip H. Sheridan
This victory so impressed General Ulysses S. Grant that...
- Henry W. Halleck
Henry W. Halleck (born Jan. 16, 1815, Westernville, N.Y.,...
- Simon B. Buckner
Hace 4 días · One of the central themes of The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant is that Grant was essentially an embattled chief executive. From day one, he had a number of enemies – many of them disappointed in not receiving offices from him – who denigrated virtually his every act as president.
Hace 2 días · The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant was a critical and commercial success. Julia Grant eventually received about $450,000 in royalties (equivalent to $15,300,000 in 2023). The memoir has been highly regarded by the public, military historians, and literary critics.
Hace 1 día · Grant's presidency was marked by efforts to promote Reconstruction in the South and protect the civil rights of newly freed African Americans. On this day in history, Ulysses S. Grant, a West Point graduate and the 18th president of the United States, died of throat cancer in New York City in 1885.
Hace 4 días · Inaugural Address (1869) by Ulysses S. Grant. March 04, 1869. Image: [President Ulysses S. Grant, half-length portrait, seated, facing right]. (c.1869) Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/96522531/. Study Questions.
Hace 4 días · Ulysses S. Grant, Inaugural Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/203658 Fellow-Citizens: UNDER Providence I have been called a second time to act as Executive over this great nation.
Hace 2 días · Under Johnson's successor, President Ulysses S. Grant, radicals passed additional legislation to enforce civil rights, such as the Ku Klux Klan Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1875. However, continued resistance from Southern Whites and the cost of Reconstruction rapidly lost support in the North during the Grant administration.
