At the time of Ulysses S. Grant's election to the presidency ... a hooded terrorist organization that its members called "The Invisible Empire of the South." The reorganized Klan's first leader ...

General in Chief of the Union Army and U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant rose from comparative obscurity to become general in chief of the Union army late in the war, securing victory by through ...

Ulysses S. Grant continued the American tradition of electing military figures as presidents—those men who led and won key battles in war. Attempting to be apolitical, Grant campaigned on the ...