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For much of his life, Ulysses S. Grant failed at every occupation he tried. But in the United States Army, his remarkable talents as a soldier and leader saved his country from falling apart.
But one other president has been arrested. A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: That president was Ulysses S. Grant, and it happened while he was in office. In 1872, President Grant was speeding down a Washington ...
Ulysses S. Grant’s 1872 brush with the law marked the first and so far only time a United States president has been arrested while in office. Pictured: Grant with his racehorse Cincinnati ...
Donald Trump on Thursday became the first former president ever to be indicted — though over 150 years ago a sitting president, Ulysses S. Grant, was arrested for speeding in his horse-drawn ...
Were you Seen at the Ulysses S. Grant Bicentennial Birthday Gala presented by The Friends of the Ulysses S. Grant Cottage featuring special guest, actor Treat Williams, and virtual appearances by ...
"AMERICA'S HARDSCRABBLE GENERAL: ULYSSES S. GRANT FROM FARM BOY TO SHILOH" by Jack Hurst (Southern Illinois University Press, 228 pages, $26). When reports of the capture of Confederate Fort ...
Stony Ford co-owner Susan Brinson provided the strongest evidence yet that Ulysses S. Grant did in fact smoke a cigar at the Goshen estate in his waning days. Grant historian Ben Kemp found ...
It’s Thursday. Today we’ll find out about a recent promotion for Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who died 139 years ago. We’ll also get details on the 45-year sentence for a man whose fentanyl stash ...
General in Chief of the Union Army and U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant rose from comparative obscurity to become general in chief of the Union army late in the war, securing victory by through ...