The General of Tennessee

The Flag of Tennessee is raised next to statue dedicated to the Union general that preserved the Union. The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial demarcates the east end of the National Mall.

In 1895, the Society of the Army of the Tennessee (also know as The Union Army of West Tennessee) under the command of Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, succeeded in having congressional legislation passed that awarded $250,000 for the design and construction of a memorial statue.

History remembers the Army of the Tennessee as one of the most important Union armies during the Civil War, an army intimately associated with the Union's most celebrated general, Ulysses S. Grant. General Sherman said that the Army of the Tennessee was "never checked—always victorious; so rapid in motion—so eager to strike; it deserved its name of the 'Whip-lash,' swung from one flank to the other, as danger called, night or day, sunshine or storm.