General And President

Ulysses S. Grant - General and President is the biography of Ulysses S. Grant, an American General and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union General in the American Civil War. Named commanding General of the Federal armies in 1864, he implemented a coordinated strategy of simultaneous attacks aimed at destroying the South's ability to carry on the war. In 1865, after conducting a costly war of attrition in the East, he accepted the surrender of his Confederate opponent Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House. In 1868, Grant was elected President as a Republican. Grant was the first President to serve two full terms since Andrew Jackson forty years prior. Grant led Radical Reconstruction and built a powerful patronage-based Republican party in the South. Ulysses S. Grant - General and President is highly recommended for those interested in the history and story of this Civil War General and American President.