ulysses s. grant

What if Ulysses S. Grant had never issued General Order No. 11?

Your challenge is to have Ulysses S. Grant be ranked among the greatest Presidents of the United States.

Ulysses S. Grant and his wife Julia were asked to go to a showing of the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre with the Lincolns. They declined. However, John Wilkes Booth thought they would be attending, and planned to stab Grant after he'd shot Lincoln. What if the Grants had decided to...