An attempt to cut down on the illegal cotton trade, Grant’s decision ... from the brutal institution before and during the Civil War John Reeves How One Robber Baron's Gamble on Railroads ...
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 ...
As Union General Ulysses S ... and his future political career. Grant’s order responded to an unsettling economic reality: Despite the war raging around them, Southern planters still wanted ...
Ulysses then moved his family to Galena, Illinois, where he took a job as a clerk in his father's leather goods shop. Shortly after the Civil War started in 1861, Grant once again became a soldier.
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The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought ...
Although the American Civil War ended April 9, 1865, when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, the war ...