The Union.
The US Civil War
they fought in the civil war to serve their country.
Ulysses S. Grant served two terms as president , from 1869 until 1877.
General Grant was the soldier that received the surrender of General Lee.
Grant was president for eight years, which was two complete four-year terms.
Grant was president from 1869 until 1877.
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He re-joined the Army as soon as the war started, and ended the war as General-in-Chief of the Union armies. So he served throughout the war.
89 ANSWER He served for two turns as President of USA (1869-1877)
Ulysses Grant entered the Union army as a captain of volunteers with the 21st Illinois Infantry Regiment in May 1861. When the regiment was mustered into Federal service in June of that year he was promoted to colonel. He would serve the Union throughout the war which ended in 1865.
The Union army had three generals who led them. They were:1. Winfield Scott 2. George B. McClellan 3. Henry Wager Halleck and 4. US Grant.Lincoln chose Grant because unlike McClellan, Grant had no political aspirations. That situation changed and Grant won the 1868 US presidential election.