Scene in the New York Gold room during the excitement of September 24th, 1869. Library of Congress. Ulysses S. Grant's popularity slipped as his presidency progressed and scandals damaged his ...

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 ...

When Rawlins died in 1869, Grant was named guardian of ... Chernow cites as his source for the anecdote the 2011 book “Grant’s Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant’s Heroic Last Year,” by ...

When Ulysses S. Grant went to the White House in 1869, he named his friend Sherman general commander of the U.S. Army. Sherman, whose middle name, Tecumseh, was that of a Shawnee Indian chief ...

Mark Twain published Grant’s memoirs. It was finished just days before his death to cancer July 1885. “The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant” published in 1886 is a literary masterpiece. Grant’s widow ...

The Mark Twain House & Museum is hosting a reading of a play about the friendship between Twain and President Ulysses S. Grant ... was elected U.S. president in 1869. Their friendship lasted ...