General Grant
Civil War victor
General Grant is Ulysses S.
Grant in his role as commander of Union forces during the American Civil War.
The title distinguishes his military career from his later presidency.
Grant appears in expressions evoking Civil War history or military leadership: He thinks he's General Grant giving orders.
The name also appears on monuments, streets, and the fifty-dollar bill.
- Confederate StatesSecessionist southern republic
- 1860sSeventh decade, nineteenth century
- Civil WarCountrymen fighting countrymen
- West PointU.S. Army academy
- Union ArmyNorthern military in 1860s
military strategy · total war · Reconstruction Era · Abraham Lincoln · unconditional surrender · Emancipation Proclamation · Battle of Shiloh · Vicksburg · Radical Republicans · Ulysses · drinking problem · Appomattox · war hero · memoirs · alcoholism · personal memoirs
- Petersburg CampaignPetersburg, trenches, trench warfare, siege warfare, siege lines
General GrantRobert E. Lee
General Lee · Confederate generals · Stonewall Jackson · Jefferson Davis · Confederate Army
General GrantRobert E. Lee
Jefferson Davis · Confederate flag · secession · John Wilkes Booth
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