list of republican presidents and the wars they fought
The first of the Republican Presidents was Abraham Lincoln who took office on May 4th, 1861. As Americaâs 16th president, he is most famous for leading the nation through its worst internal conflict, the Civil War.
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 (1869â1877), working to implement Congressional Reconstruction and to remove the vestiges of slavery.