Worth, during the Mexican-American War.1855. Library of Congress ... Among those was Second Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant. Although during the war he expressed no reservations about it, he would ...

Ulysses S. Grant was born. U. S ... In later years, Grant wrote that the Mexican War was "one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation." Officially, he served as ...

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 ...

Polk when he ordered General Zachary Taylor to seize disputed territory along the Mexican border with Texas. In the words of ...

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 ...

Why look back when we still have so far to go? As home to the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, Mississippi State University has assembled a staggering array of artifacts from the famed civil war ...

This nearly 10-acre site is dedicated to the U.S. Civil War general and two-term U.S. president, Ulysses S. Grant, who lived here with his wife, family and enslaved workers in the 1850s.

An attempt to cut down on the illegal cotton trade, Grant’s decision ... before and during the Civil War John Reeves How One Robber Baron's Gamble on Railroads Brought Down His Bank and Plunged ...