They knew that their program for reconstruction of the South could not succeed with Andrew ... Johnson suspended Stanton. In his place, Johnson appointed the popular General Ulysses S. Grant ...

When Ulysses S. Grant took office, he seemed ready to continue Andrew Johnson's money policy. Like Johnson, Grant tried to improve the economy by reducing the supply of greenbacks, or paper dollars.

Mark Twain published Grant’s memoirs. It was finished just days before his death to cancer July 1885. “The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant” published in 1886 is a literary masterpiece. Grant’s widow ...

Take Audrey Hepburn, for example, who's ... Andrew Johnson and the Union's first significant victory in the Civil War. Read more: Vinegar Cooking Hacks You'll Wish You Knew Sooner It seems Grant ...