A son, later named Hiram Ulysses Grant, is born to tanner Jesse R. Grant and Hannah Simpson Grant at Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio. Ulysses attends the Presbyterian academy at Ripley, Ohio. On ...

"This biography details the three years which saw Ulysses S. Grant's extraordinary rise from mediocre shop clerk to general-in-chief of the U.S. Army. Grant's most spectacular campaigns, including ...

Ulysses S. Grant was not quite 40 in April 1861 when Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, beginning the Civil War. Grant, a West Point graduate and Mexican American War veteran, had resigned from the ...

In 1861 Ulysses S. Grant spent his first Christmas as a general at Cairo, at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. (His wife, the former Julia Dent, whom he married Aug. 22, 1848, was at ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) - Cape Girardeau holds a unique and consequential past, particularly associated with one of the most renowned men of the Civil War and an eventual president of the United ...

Fred Dent Grant, son of President Ulysses S. Grant, left George Armstrong Custer’s 7th Cavalry just before Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians nearly annihilated the regiment at the Battle of the ...

Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985. Save Outdoor Sculpture, Mississippi survey, 1993. National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, MS7138, 1989.

For much of his life, Ulysses S. Grant failed at every occupation he tried. But in the United States Army, his remarkable talents as a soldier and leader saved his country from falling apart. Born ...