Join us on a special visit to the historic Galena, Illinois home of Ulysses S. Grant—Civil War general and 18th President of the United States. This well-preserved house reveals the private life ...

He returned home to Galena, IL after the war where he and his wife, Julia Dent Grant, ... Ulysses S. Grant was an important person in the History of our country and his home is a historical location.

In his memoirs, Ulysses S. Grant makes scant mention of the April 1860 afternoon that he moved with his family to the port town of Galena, Illinois, on a Mississippi tributary 144 miles northwest ...

Playing up Galena’s scraggly, pioneering past has been key to the town’s rebirth as a tourist mecca, and the community of 3,600 now claims more than 1 million visitors a year.

The Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site will commemorate Grant’s bicentennial throughout the year with a variety of exhibits, in-person programs, ... Grant's Galena Home.

Ulysses S. Grant`s adopted hometown, Galena has one of the nation`s outstanding collections of Victorian architecture. Dozens of 19th Century brick buildings line […] Skip to content ...

Nancy Purdy gave a tour of Ulysses S. Grant's boyhood home and talked about his upbringing. She spoke about Grant's parents, Jesse and Hannah Grant, and how their values affected the future president.

Ulysses S. Grant was not quite 40 in April 1861 when Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, beginning the Civil War. Grant, a West Point graduate and Mexican American War veteran, ...

Ulysses S. Grant, the victorious ... Ohio, is a historic site, his tomb in New York is North America’s largest mausoleum, his post-war home in Galena, Illinois, is a major tourist attraction, ...

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.