American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

Ulysses then moved his family to Galena, Illinois, where he took a job as a clerk in his father's leather goods shop. Shortly after the Civil War started in 1861, Grant once again became a soldier.

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 ...

As Union General Ulysses S. Grant pushed southward from Tennessee into Oxford, Mississippi, in December 1862, he felt the pressure of the Southern cotton economy closing around him. Smuggling and ...

This nearly 10-acre site is dedicated to the U.S. Civil War general and two-term U.S. president, Ulysses S. Grant, who lived here with his wife, family and enslaved workers in the 1850s.