Grant resided in the Driftless Area of northwest Illinois from spring 1860, following his first stint in the U.S. Army, until ...

Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877) 18th President Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio. When Grant was one year old, the family moved to Georgetown, Ohio, ...

From Abraham Lincoln's patent to James A. Garfield's geometry proof, learn how these 19th- and 20th-century commanders in ...

Two men who served as the nation's chief executive visited Lake Tahoe and Nevada in the late 1800s: President Ulysses S. Grant, who was not a sitting president at the time of his visit, and President ...

Acclaimed Civil War reenactor and historian Curt Fields, Ph.D., will present “This Cruel War is Over: What Now?” at a special meeting of the Civil War Round Table at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 22, at the ...

In 1869, The Milwaukee Sentinel reported 1,914 shipwrecks and 209 deaths on the Great Lakes. Dr. Increase Lapham read it and pitched Congress a revolutionary idea: Use telegraphs to track storms and ...

In December, 1863, General Ulysses. S. Grant had many big decision to make as he made his plans for the spring offensive against the Confederacy. Grant, a West Point graduate and veteran of the ...

President Ulysses S. Grant delivers his second inaugural address from the east steps of the U.S. Capitol as the temperature topped out at 16 degrees Fahrenheit on March 4, 1873, in Washington, D.C. A ...