USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1865, as commanding general, Ulysses S. Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. As an American hero, Grant was later elected the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877), working to implement Congressional Reconstruction and to remove the vestiges of slavery.

Detailed explanation-2: -Eventually, the commission ruled in favor of Republican candidate, Rutherford B. Hayes, who became the nineteenth U.S. President.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ulysses S. Grant was inconsistent in his policy supporting Reconstruction. He sent federal troops into South Carolina to protect African-Americans’ civil rights, but failed to send federal troops into Louisiana and other southern states when Reconstruction began to fail there.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ulysses Grant (1822-1885) commanded the victorious Union army during the American Civil War (1861-1865) and served as the 18th U.S. president from 1869 to 1877. An Ohio native, Grant graduated from West Point and fought in the Mexican-American War (1846-1848).

Detailed explanation-5: -With this appointment, Grant essentially replaced his former nemesis, Gen. Henry W. Halleck (1815-1872), as “General in Chief of the Army” and was subject only to the Lincoln as commander in chief.