Ulysses S. Grant was born. U. S ... Grant had finally found an arena where he could shine: the battlefield. In March 1864, a grateful Abraham Lincoln appointed Grant commander of all the U.S ...

An attempt to cut down on the illegal cotton trade, Grant’s decision, announced on this day in 1862, was immensely controversial and hounded him for years Eli Wizevich The Union general directly ...

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.