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

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

President Grant gave the pen he used to sign the 15th Amendment to a fellow Civil War ... for during the war. In the words of Adam Badeau, an Army officer who had served on the general’s wartime ...

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 ...

It was in this month in 1865 the Civil War ... surrender of the war. The religious faith of these men was varied like the American population today. On the Union side, Grant was raised in a ...

Lee’s surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant, general-in-chief of all United States forces, hastened the conclusion of the Civil War.