Join us as we take a rare look inside the home of U.S. Grant - Civil War hero and the 18th President of the United States. Located in Galena, Illinois, this house preserves the personal belongings ...

On that spring day, Grant followed his wife, Julia, and their four children, Frederick, Ulysses, Ellen and Jesse, down the riverboat Itaska's gangplank onto ... results at the home of his friend ...

Grant moved to St. Louis, where he failed at several pursuits. 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 ...

Grant would, before the Civil War, display significant ambivalence towards slavery. In fact, his wife’s slaves were an integral source of labor at the Grant home, White Haven in ... Missouri and ...

This nearly 10-acre site is dedicated to the U.S. Civil War general and two-term U.S. president, Ulysses S. Grant, who lived here ... including the White Haven home, a horse stable, an ice house ...

A son, later named Hiram Ulysses Grant ... favorably impressed by Grant, arranges for him to preside over a public meeting held in Galena to respond to Lincoln's call for troops after war breaks ...