He told Grant that his men would promise to stay out of the war if permitted to return to their homes.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

This week in our series, Larry West and Frank Oliver talk about the first term of President Ulysses Grant.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

The Department of Labor announced the grant in September, along with seven million dollars promised by the international cocoa industry.

VOA: special.2010.10.26

There they waited. As he had done in the wilderness and at Spotsylvania, Grant ordered his men to attack hard.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

Nothing but surrender. Lee sent a note to General Grant asking to meet with him to discuss surrender terms.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

Soon after Grant's re-election, for example, there was a serious incident that involved many of his supporters in Congress.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

They saw Grant as a strong and silent soldier a great leader who had won a long and bitter war.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

He alone, of all those around the president, would argue with Grant when he believed him to be wrong.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

Vermont, however, still won the right for its researchers to ask for money under the National Sea Grant Program.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

On March fourth, eighteen sixty-nine, Ulysses Grant traveled to Washington for his inauguration as the eighteenth president of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

Grant had led the Union army of the North to victory over the Confederate army of the South during the Civil War.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

Zilpah Grant and Mary Lyon urged that Ipswich be provided buildings so that the school might become permanent.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

Wherever Grant went, former soldiers waited to shake the hand of the man who had led them to victory against the Confederacy.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

They drove the Confederates back. Grant then ordered the rest of his army to cross to the east side of the river.

VOA: special.2009.11.19