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

On July 4, 1863, after 47 days of battle, Lt. General John Pemberton’s Confederate troops surrendered to General Ulysses S.

Ulysses S. Grant’s 1872 brush with the law marked the first and so far only time a United States president has been arrested while in office.

Donald Trump will be the first president to be arrested in over 150 years since 19th cetnry president and Civil War hero Ulysses S. Grant was cuffed in 1872 for speeding in his horse-drawn carriage.

Americans, on July 4th, celebrate the nation’s birthday, when the Continental Congress officially declared that the United States was no longer a British colony, but an independent country. It gained ...

That president was Ulysses S. Grant, and it happened while he was in office. In 1872, President Grant was speeding down a Washington, D.C., street in his horse and buggy.

Ulysses S. Grant, who had an eye for spirited horses and an apparent yen to test their mettle, was arrested in 1872 for speeding on a street in Washington.

Ulysses Grant Dietz, the great, great grandson of former U.S. President and Civil War General Ulysses S. Grant, captivated a large audience on the cottage grounds.