GRANT's staff, writes as follows from Chattanooga: "I need not describe to you the recent battle of Chattanooga. The papers have given every possible detail concerning it. I may only say that I ...

Could Union general Ulysses S. Grant score a victory in this theater and retake the initiative? The Battle of Chattanooga was a solid military victory for the Union that re-established its ...

Ulysses S. Grant and his Generals on horseback. 1865, Library of Congress. As a cadet at West Point, Ulysses S. Grant was an indifferent student. But as a young soldier in the Mexican War, he had ...

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For much of his life, Ulysses S. Grant failed at every occupation he ... He successfully turned back a surprise Confederate attack at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee. His capture of the city ...

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 ...