The Union General who prevailed in the grueling but successful war of attrition against Robert E. Lee, and who won fame for his victories at Ft. Donaldson (1862), Shiloh (1862), and Vicksburg (1863). Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox in April 1865, ending the American Civil War. Grant was also the 18th U.S. President, serving from 1869 to 1877. Near bankruptcy and dying of throat cancer, Grant then wrote a brilliant memoir of his military service; it stands as a monument in military historiography, and his battlefield achievements rank him as one of the finest generals in world history. As a Republican president he supported the Radical Republicans in the program for reconstruction, defeated the Ku Klux Klan, and supported civil rights for the Freedmen (freed slaves). Read more at Conservapedia…
Chronological history of Events Involving Ulysses S Grant

President Trump’s Extraordinary Christmas Speech

Ku Klux Klan Act passed by Congress

The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

13th Amendment Ratified
