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14th Amendment
... This amendment requires the states to grant its citizens the same rights that ...

Albert Sidney Johnston
... west of Columbus, Kentucky, Ulysses S. Grant. Anderson felt that Johnston's goal was ... or supplies. The loss also hastened Grant's move against

Alexander Stephens
... Union lines to meet Ulysses S. Grant at his headquarters in City Point, ... but Greeley lost to Ulysses S. Grant. The following year Stephens retu

Army of Mississippi
... of the Mississippi With Ulysses S. Grant's Army of West Tennessee capturing Fort ... the Army of Mississippi nearly drove Grant's army from the ba

Army of the Cumberland
... Tecumseh Sherman and General Ulysses S. Grant to take overall command. In late ...

Army of the Ohio
... Ohio moved south with Ulysses S. Grant's Army of Tennessee, taking the city ... the town of Savannah, Tennessee. When Grant awoke to the sound of

Army of the Tennessee
... commanded by Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant. It was divided into 3 divisions, ... after Leonidas Polk seized Columbus, Kentucky. Grant was anx

Atlanta Campaign
... the spring of 1864, Ulysses S. Grant ordered General William Tecumseh Sherman to ...

Battle of Appomattox
... Virginia. As they withdrew Ulysses S. Grant pursued Lee's beleaguered army along the ... west to Appomattox. Since md:April 7 Grant and Lee had be

Battle of Belmont
... Perhaps most famous as Ulysses S. Grant's first battle, Belmont, Missouri was little ... on mdy:September 4, 1861, Ulysses S. Grant advanced his h

Battle of Iuka
... Braxton Bragg worried about Ulysses S. Grant supporting Bragg's opponent Don Carlos Buell. Grant's Army of the Tennessee was spread ... do what he

Battle of Mill Springs
... right flank destroyed, Ulysses S. Grant could now concentrate on his center. ...

Battle of Munfordville
... a priority for both Ulysses S. Grant and Don Carlos Buell, who intended ...

Battle of Shiloh
... newly promoted Major Generals Ulysses S. Grant US and Don Carlos Buell US ... south more slowly than the eager Grant. With a larger body of men Gr

Battles for Chattanooga
... Mountain. Abraham Lincoln ordered Ulysess S. Grant to Chattanooga so that he could ... along with General Joe Hooker|Joseph Hooker. Grant's first

Benjamin Franklin Cheatham
... Leonidas Polk and blocked Ulysses S. Grant from returning to his boats on ... north of Belmont, Missouri|Battle of Belmont. Grant concentrated his

Braxton Bragg
... western Confederate forces met Ulysses S. Grant at Pittsburg Landing|Battle of Shiloh. Bragg ... Bragg understood the importance of defeating Gran

Central Army of Kentucky
... River south of Paducah. Ulysses S. Grant then occupied Paducah. Kentucky had declared ... the state and one week after Grant's seizure of Paducah,

Committee on the Conduct of the War
... widely discussed topic. When Ulysses S. Grant became General-in-Chief|General-in-Chief, U. S. Army the committee was a major reason why Grant chos

Constitution of the State of Vermont
... on examination of witnesses-redress grievances-impeach State criminals-grant charters of incorporation-constitute towns, boroughs, cities ... cour

Cracker Line
... of the Cumberland under Ulysses S. Grant. Grant was already heading east from his ... the Cumberland under the command of Grant, the other relievi

David Porter
... role in assisting General Ulysses S. Grant at the Siege of Petersburg. Porter ...

Don Carlos Buell
... the previous month. With Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Tennessee quickly striking ... further in less time to attack Grant at Shiloh. On mdy:Apri

Earl Van Dorn
... controlled the city. With Ulysses S. Grant and Edward O. C. Ord advancing ... Van Dorn's raid on Ulysses S. Grant's supply depot at Holly Springs

Election of 1864
... the Potomac, now under Ulysses S. Grant and George Meade went 78% for ...

Election of 1876
... party line course, praising Ulysses S. Grant while damming the scandals around the ... and other scandals that tainted the Grant Administration. W

Election of 1880
... convention with former President Ulysses S. Grant as the leading contender for President, ... end of his chances. A strong anti-Grant/no third ter

English Bill
... demand for 23.5 million acres of grant land (in the Lecompton Constitution) to ...

Fall of Nashville, February, 1862
... of Kentucky. News that Ulysses S. Grant took Fort Henry|Fort Henry and Fort ... the marauding Union Army. At Donelson, Grant had requested assista

First Vicksburg Campaign
... Kentucky ended, Major General Ulysses S. Grant prepared to take The Civil War ... the war. On mdy:October 16, 1862 Grant issued General Order 1, t

Ford's Theater
... Abraham Lincoln and General Ulysses S. Grant, who accepted the surrender of Robert ... the Presidential Box for the evening. Grant was unable to m

Fort Henry and Fort Donelson
... was quickly upstaged by Ulysses S. Grant US, who seized Paducah (at the ... job fell to General Ulysses S. Grant and Commodore Andrew Foote US. Fo

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 [Full Text]
... collectively, in term-time and vacation; shall grant certificates to such claimants, upon satisfactory ... person authorized by this act to grant

gag rule

General-in-Chief, U. S. Army
... was not Halleck but Ulysses S. Grant who was responsible for the successes ... safely in Union hands, Lincoln promoted Grant and gave him the Gene

George Armstrong Custer
... of Monroe, Ohio. When Ulysses S. Grant arrived to accept the role of ... for the first time at Chattanooga. Grant liked Sheridan because of his fi

George McClellan
... the East. His quartermaster, Ulysses S. Grant, went on a drinking spree, an ... S. Rosecrans. He ignored Ulysses S. Grant's request to join his ev

George Meade
... in every battle. General Ulysses S. Grant, as General-in-Chief, U. S. Army kept ... so they informally agreed to credit Grant with good things tha

George Thomas
... of rations remaining, General Ulysses S. Grant relieved William Rosecrans of command, giving ... resupply the men. Thomas, and later Grant, approv

Georgia Declaration of Causes

Gideon Pillow
... given to hold. Ulysses S. Grant

Henry Halleck
... long to realize that it was Grant who was successful, not Halleck Henry ... a serious problem with his subordinate Grant. Unlike many of the men i

Important Battles of the Civil War
... the Civil War. Until Ulysses S. Grant's advance down the Tennessee River, engagements ... of the Western forces. Ulysses S. Grant delivered the ci

J. E. B. Stuart
... a run-in with General George Meade, Grant detached Sheridan and his 13,000 man ...

James Buchanan
... "Save the Union" platform. Ulysses S. Grant claimed in his memoirs to have ... meant the South would secede. "Besides," Grant continued, "I knew F

James Garfield
... as chief-of-staff, but after Ulysses S. Grant engineered the breakout in November, 1863, ... The well-known scandals that occurred during Grant's

James McPherson
... of Shiloh|Battle of Shiloh Ulysses S. Grant ordered Chief Engineer James McPherson to ...

Jefferson Davis

John Floyd
... In early February both Ulysses S. Grant and the Department of Missouri|Army of ... of Mississippi|Army of Tennessee. One of Grant's hallmarks in h

John Reynolds
... same demand made by Ulysses S. Grant. ==At Gettysburg== From his headquarters in ...

Joseph E. Johnston
... was himself attacked by Ulysses S. Grant. As Bragg withdrew from Chattanooga to ... under essentially the same terms that Grant had given Lee on A

Joseph Hooker
... Rosy. He also sent Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman from the ... take a chance of defeat. Ulysses Grant, in Louisville, ordered Georg

Jubal Early's Raid on Washington D. C.
... Railroad By early June, Ulysses S. Grant's war of attrition was having the ... Hagerstown, Williamsport and Shepherdstown. Ulysses S. Grant had be

Kansas-Nebraska Act [Full Text]
... of the militia thereof. He may grant pardons and respites for offences against ... respective judges thereof, shall and may grant writs of habeas

Leonidas Polk
... punch. Two days later Ulysses S. Grant seized Paducah. In a letter dated ... an order from General Fremont to Grant asking him to demonstrate in s

Lew Wallace at Shiloh
... that appeared to be detached from Grant's main force. Johnston knew the Union ... was for Buell and Ulysses S. Grant to combine forces, then subdu

Meridian Campaign
... Chattanooga, Tennessee relieved and Ulysses S. Grant heading north to Nashville, Sherman had ...

Missouri Ordinance of Secession

Nashville Convention of 1850 [Resolutions]

Nashville Convention Resolutions [Full Text]

P. G. T. Beauregard
... Bull Run, nearly destroyed Ulysses S. Grant at the Battle of Shiloh, commanded ... Johnston's army. After General Ulysses S. Grant took Fort Henry

Radical Republicans
... the Eastern Theater. When Ulysses S. Grant became General-in-Chief|General-in-Chief, U. S. Army he ... political climate in Washington D. C., Gran

Robert Barnwell Rhett

Robert E. Lee
... was completely surrounded by Ulysses S. Grant's 125,000 man Army of the Potomac ... an outcome of his meeting with Grant. Beloved by his men and r

Samuel Garland
... Longstreet CS Sister-in-law married Ulysses S. Grant US One of eight Confederate generals ...

Sheridans Raid on Richmond
... exchange, Sheridan proceeded to Ulysses S. Grant to tell him of the incident, carefully including the statement about Stuart. Grant reacted as She

Sherman's Memoirs on Shiloh
... forward divisions of the Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Tennessee before the ...

Siege of Petersburg
... but also sever the rail line Grant had constructed. Lee might have a ... along the railroad to City Point, Grant's headquarters and the only suppl

Simon Bolivar Buckner
... from Tennessee, occupying Columbus, Ulysses S. Grant seized Paducah. On date:September 13, year:1861 ... aggressive nature of General Ulysses S. G

Speech by John C. Calhoun, March 4, 1850

Surrender At Appomattox
... Beginning on April 7, Ulysses S. Grant and Lee discussed the possibility of ... might come. Behind Union lines General Grant had a very different

Surrender Letters
... date:April 9, year:1865 Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee began truce ... content. Surrender Letters Ulysses S. Grant, from his headquar

Telegraph
... 1865, Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant

The Civil War
... That was the day Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, Joseph Hooker and ... an estimated three-year war. Ulysses S. Grant US, in response t

Tullahoma Campaign
... start of the campaign Ulysses S. Grant had John Pemberton under siege in ... on Nashville and perhaps Louisville, cutting Grant's force off from t

Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant According to book:B00005Y2B1:American Heritage magazine "U. S." Grant was "...the supreme Union hero of the Civil War, but Grant's su

Virginia Ordinance of Secession

William 'Bull' Nelson
... Carlos Buell to aid Ulysses S. Grant, then at Fort Donelson|Fort Henry and ... Donelson, only to find out that Grant had taken the fort earlier in

William Farrar Smith
... from duty and General Ulysses S. Grant on his way to Chattanooga Smith ... Thomas approved the plan as did Grant when he arrived. William Hazen wa

William Hardee
... withdraw to Nashville. When Ulysses S. Grant took Donelson on mdy:February 16, the ... Alabama. The race south began because Grant had turned sout

Winfield Scott
... G. T. Beauregard, and Ulysses S. Grant and soon to be joined by ...