Ulysses S. Grant was born. U. S. Grant showed little promise at West Point. Although relatively well educated, he studied little. He stood out in mathematics and horsemanship, which had always ...

He was under orders to scout a suitable site for a military post, a mission personally approved by President Ulysses ... s Herculean note-taking, embodied in a 124-volume diary held at the West ...

He has presented at dedication ceremonies at the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library at Mississippi State University and at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He is a former Memphis police ...

Before Ulysses S. Grant became the 18th president - He was named Hiram Ulysses Grant, but when he entered the United States Military Academy at West Point his name was miswritten as “Ulysses ...

President Grant gave the pen he used to sign the 15th Amendment to a fellow Civil War veteran, Herbert Preston. Copyright © 2017 by Wendel A. White President Ulysses ...

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 ...

Ulysses S. Grant, who lived here with his wife, family and enslaved workers in the 1850s. A large portion of the original 850-acre estate was sold off to the Busch family and now operates as Grant ...

In time, Ulysses will accept U. S. Grant as his true name, insisting that his middle initial stands for "nothing." After graduating from West Point ranked 21 in a class of 39 in June, Grant ...

Ulysses S. Grant National Historic site is the family home of Grant's wife, Julia Dent. Grant, Julia, and their children lived at White Haven for several years. Grant had planned to retire to White ...