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 ...

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 ...

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.

Battling terminal throat cancer, Grant raced to complete his account of the Civil War. Thousands of Civil War veterans interested in reading the general's description of wartime events created an ...

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 ...

It seems like Almost Yesterday that the city of Ironton, Missouri installed a series of historical markers to identify Civil ...

Years later, in 1869, Grant became a U.S. president like his former Commander-in-Chief Lincoln had done, setting a precedent ...

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For generations, Americans learned the same basic story about the end of the Civil ...

Grant’s Home Front Civil War reenactment will be held April 26-27 at Depot Park, 91 Bouthillier St.