Category: U.S. Grant
January 13 1868 The Senate Refuses Consent to Johnson’s Removal of War Sec. Stanton
In 1867 Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act which required the president to seek the consent of the Senate prior to dismissing any government…
Andrew Johnson Breaks With His Generals: Grant and Sherman on Guard January 1868
In December 1867, President Andrew Johnson sent a message to Congress explaining his reasons for suspending Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in apparent defiance of…
NY Times: Thoughts on the 150th Anniversary of the Start of U.S. Grant’s Presidency
This is the Sesquicentennial of the Grant Presidency. Jamelle Bouie, New York Times Opinion columnist, has a thoughtful article on the hopes engendered 150 years…
Gideon Welles: Democrats Should Have Nominated General Hancock to Run Against Grant 1868
In 1868, Union army commander Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Democrat Horatio Seymour in the presidential race. In his Journal for Nov. 17, 1868, Sec….
Did Grant’s World Tour Boost the U.S. in East Asia?
Robert Farley, a senior lecturer at the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce of the University of Kentucky and a visiting professor at the…
President-Elect Grant Arrives in Washington By a “Surprise Flank March” Nov. 7, 1868
Rather than have a grand entry in Washington, President-elect Ulysses S. Grant arrived with little fanfare in the capital just four days after his election….
Democratic Newspaper Wonders if Grant Still Antisemite in 1869
Grant’s order expelling the Jews from territory occupied by his army was issued in 1862, but more than six years later Democratic newspapers were still…
Nick Sacco Explains How National Park Service Interprets Grant’s Presidency at His Home in St. Louis
Nick Sacco is a “public historan.” He interprets history for visotrs at the National Park Service’s Ulysses Grant Historic Site in St. Louis Missouri. While…
Grant Will Turn the South into “the howling wilderness of African barbarism” July 1868
Yesterday I posted an attack on U.S. Grant from the political left in which abolition activist Anna Dickinson went after Grant’s supposedly soft support for…
Anna Dickinson: Don’t Hide Principles of Equality Behind Grant’s Cigar Smoke on Votes for Blacks June 1868
Anna Dickinson was a teen sensation as an abolitionist public speaker in the late 1850s. During the Civil War she became the first woman to…
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