This video offers a historic walkthrough of Ulysses S. Grant’s residence in Galena, IL, where he lived after the Civil War.

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, 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 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, ...