For much of his life, Ulysses S. Grant failed at every occupation he tried. But in the United States Army, his remarkable talents as a soldier and leader saved his country from falling apart. Born ...
A mix-up on his first day at West Point in 1839 bestowed the name Ulysses S. Grant on the young cadet born Hiram Ulysses Grant. The “U.S.” would prove fitting. During the Civil War, troops dubbed him ...
TO RESCUE THE REPUBLIC: Ulysses S. Grant, The Fragile Union and the Crisis of 1876. By Brett Bair. Custom House. 400 pages. $28.99. As the anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot approaches, ...
This little book will inevitably be compared with Josiah Bunting's similarly short biography of one of the world's greatest military figures (Forecasts, June 14). The marriage of author and subject ...
Part I. Formation 1630-1848 -- "My family is American" -- "My Ulysses" -- West Point -- "Dear Julia" -- "By treaty or the sword" -- "Army of invasion" -- Part II ...
"AMERICA'S HARDSCRABBLE GENERAL: ULYSSES S. GRANT FROM FARM BOY TO SHILOH" by Jack Hurst (Southern Illinois University Press, 228 pages, $26). When reports of the capture of Confederate Fort Donelson ...
STARKVILLE, Miss.—The Ulysses S. Grant Association and the U.S. Grant Presidential Library at Mississippi State University are kicking off a celebration of the 18th president’s bicentennial year with ...
While Reading Brad Neely’s “You, Me, and Ulysses S. Grant,” I kept thinking of Norman O. Brown’s writing about the excremental vision, as employed by Jonathan Swift and James Joyce, and applied to a ...
Rutherford B. Hayes visited the following year as a sitting president; no other sitting president visited the lake until Bill ...
The Civil War general was elevated to general of the armies of the United States, a title his admirers had long sought. By James Barron El principal logro del actual mandatario, según los ...
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