Ulysses S. Grant Memorial

The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring American Civil War general and U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant. It is located at the base of Capitol Hill (Union Square, the Mall, 1st Street, between Pennsylvania Avenue and Maryland Avenue), below the west front of the United States Capitol. The monument's statue faces west toward the Lincoln Memorial honoring Grant's wartime president, Abraham Lincoln. Between the Grant and Lincoln memorials, which define the east and west boundaries of the National Mall, is the Washington Monument. The Grant Memorial includes the second largest equestrian statue in the United States and the fourth largest in the world, after the statue of conquistador Don Juan de...