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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

18th US President and famed Union general Ulysses S. Grant was an Odd Fellow. That is, he belonged to a society known as the Independent Order of Odd Fellows .

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.