... along the mighty river between Memphis and Vicksburg (in the midst of a forty-plus-day siege led by General Ulysses S. Grant). Memphis, under Federal control since June of 1862, served as an important supply depot and staging area for ...

LOCUST GROVE, Va. Wal-Mart wants to build a Supercenter within a cannonshot of where Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant first fought, a proposal that has preservationists rallying to protect the key Civil War site. A who's who of ...

... Aside from the pesky females, with their big mouths and bigger skirts, there were other mishaps (two words about Ulysses S. Grant's icy ball: frozen canaries). The sites were almost always too crowded, but the parties seemed magnificent ...

NEW YORK George Washington, a Virginian, has his statue on Wall Street, Ohio-born Ulysses S. Grant has his tomb overlooking the Hudson. But for reasons nobody can easily explain, New York native son Franklin Delano Roosevelt ...

... Washington, for example, declared: "It is impossible to rightly govern the world without the Bible." And here's Ulysses S. Grant: "The Bible is the Anchor of our liberties." And Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was, come to think of it, notable ...

... positive reviews. The film launched Thompson's acting career. Among his many characters, he played President Ulysses S. Grant in last year's made-for-TV HBO movie "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," and the fictional President Charles ...

... 1862, during the Civil War, some 14,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered at Fort Donelson, Tenn. (Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's victory earned him the nickname "Unconditional Surrender Grant.") - Advertisement - On this date: In 1804 ...

... another six months even if he had not been gunned down in Ford's Theater, she points out. Writing of President Ulysses S. Grant, Dr Tsuda submits that this 18th president was afflicted with throat cancer after his term in office, 1869-1877 ...

... Details of the terms and conditions of the surrender were worked out by six men the day after Lee and Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant agreed on the broad terms of the surrender. Three copies were made, according to the memoir of Union Gen. John ...

... Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. In June 1865, Lee was formally charged with treason but, with the help of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, the charges were dropped. In October 1865, Lee asked President Andrew Johnson for a pardon, signing an official ...