President Grant gave the pen he used to sign the 15th Amendment to a fellow Civil War veteran, Herbert Preston. Copyright © 2017 by Wendel A. White President Ulysses ...

the dominant issues in governance at the time of Ulysses S. Grant’s tenure were related to the South and African-American civil rights. Reconstruction needed major federal intervention to prevent ...

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He was under orders to scout a suitable site for a military post, a mission personally approved by President Ulysses S. Grant ... States guaranteeing their rights to the region.

And with its end Grant’s efforts toward civil rights would not last and would eventually lead to the rise of its antithesis - the “Jim Crow” era. Ulysses S. Grant served as President of the ...

General in Chief of the Union Army and U.S. President Ulysses ... Grant's memoirs, completed only days before his death, are considered among the best of any written about the Civil War.

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Semmes, historian and Mississippi State Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library research director ... Reconstruction as an expansive project—one that sought to extend civil rights not only to newly ...

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Ulysses then moved his family to Galena, Illinois, where he took a job as a clerk in his father's leather goods shop. Shortly after the Civil War started in 1861, Grant once again became a soldier.