President Grant gave the pen he used to sign the 15th Amendment to a fellow Civil War veteran ... the first black person to serve in the U.S. Senate. In a powerful piece of symbolism, Revels ...

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For ...

Born Hiram Ulysses Grant, he became known as U.S. ("Unconditional Surrender") Grant ... are considered among the best of any written about the Civil War.

Ulysses S. Grant continued the American tradition of electing military figures as presidents—those men who led and won key battles in war. Attempting to be apolitical, Grant campaigned on the ...

We took a historic tour of General U.S. Grant's Home. We are not able to do any metal detecting on this site but wanted to share this important part of history with our viewers. U.S. Grant was the ...

The Civil War was entering its fifth year ... and agree “not to take up arms against the Government of the United States.” At Lee’s request, Grant even allowed Confederates who owned ...

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War. These soldiers ... once the grant application was ...

Almost a year into the American Civil War, the Union forces laid siege to Fort Donelson. In this episode, we're going to find out why this fort was strategically important, and how Ulysses S Grant got ...

Ulysses S Grant ... madness of war, children remained children. In schoolyards and farmyards, boys dressed as soldiers marched and played war. Girls imitated the nurses of the U.S. Sanitary ...

Grant and the Union Army ... For the first year of the Civil War, O’Sullivan worked with Brady, and then in 1862 became assistant to colleague Alexander Gardner when Gardner moved to set ...