WEST POINT, N.Y. — A seven-and-half foot bronze statue of Ulysses S. Grant now stands at the U.S. Military Academy.. The statue of the 18th U.S. president was dedicated this week, not far from ...

Thirty-six years after a statue of Dwight D. Eisenhower, USMA Class of 1915, was added to the perimeter of The Plain, a statue of Ulysses S. Grant, USMA Class of 1843, was dedicated during a ...

Ronald C. White is the author of “American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant.” Over the past several years, in cities and on college campuses across the nation, Civil War statues and ...

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point is finally getting a statue of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, one of its most famous graduates, who led the Union to victory in the Civil War.. It will be unveiled ...

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point is welcoming a statue of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on its campus this week to celebrate 150 years since the West Point graduate was inaugurated as president of ...

Ulysses S. Grant hated the West Point uniform. Though Grant’s father hoped that pushing him into the prestige of West Point would open up opportunities for his son, the younger Grant pretty much ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Ulysses S. Grant turned quite a few heads on Thursday during a surprise visit to Saratoga Race Course, 145 years after his first trip there. One of the army’s most ac… ...

The hero Union general of the Civil War faced another battle when he took the nation’s highest office. Ulysses S. Grant was born on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio. His birth name was… ...

On this day in history, Ulysses S. Grant, a West Point graduate and the 18th president of the United States, died of throat cancer in New York at the age of 63.

John Marszalek, the executive director of the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, said in a 2018 interview with NPR that Grant—born April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio—loved to race ...

When police officer William Henry West pulled over Ulysses S. Grant for speeding in a horse-drawn carriage on the streets of Washington, D.C. in 1872, he issued the president a warning.

West Point unveils statue of Ulysses S. Grant. By Brandon OConnor April 30, 2019. WEST POINT, N.Y. -- Eye to eye across The Plain the two members of the Long Gray Line to serve as President of the ...