The remarkable story of Ulysses S. Grant and Harrison Terrell, a former slave who became Grant's butler and personal attendant is an overlooked part America’s civil rights story.

The remarkable story of Ulysses S. Grant and Harrison Terrell, a former slave who became Grant's butler and personal attendant is an overlooked part America’s civil rights story.

After taking office in 1869, an embarrassed and chagrined Grant executed a series of enforcement acts meant to crush the Ku Klux Klan and a variety of other secret organizations committed to ending ...

As Union General Ulysses S. Grant pushed southward from Tennessee into Oxford, Mississippi, in December 1862, he felt the pressure of the Southern cotton economy closing around him.

Grant's plan worked, and on April 9, 1865, he accepted Lee's surrender. Four bloody and tragic years of Civil War ended, and Grant was the hero who had achieved the victory.

Ulysses S. Grant Finally Gets That Promotion. The Civil War general was elevated to general of the armies of the United States, a title his admirers had long sought.

Grant’s brother‑in‑law Michael John Cramer later explained that Grant had initially worried about bestowing voting rights upon black citizens, some of them still illiterate.

Beginning next year, April 27 will be celebrated as Ulysses S. Grant Day in the iconic Civil War general’s home state of Ohio, after legislation creating the recognition cleared the Legislature ...

Known as the military leader who saved America, Ulysses S. Grant left a legacy of fighting for the rights of enslaved people during and after the Civil War.

Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, photographed by Matthew Brady, circa 1864. More than a century after his death, Grant is set for a posthumous appointment to General of the Armies of the United States ...

That president was Ulysses S. Grant, and it happened while he was in office. In 1872, President Grant was speeding down a Washington, D.C., street in his horse and buggy.