General in Chief of the Union Army and U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant rose from comparative obscurity to become general in chief of the Union army late in the war, securing victory by through ...

Battling terminal throat cancer, Grant raced to complete his account of the Civil War. Thousands of Civil War veterans interested in reading the general's description of wartime events created an ...

U.S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States (POTUS) and a Union General of the American Civil War. He returned home to Galena, IL after the war where he and his wife, Julia Dent Grant ...

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.