On July 23, 1885, the United States lost one of its defining figures. Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. General Grant stands in front of his campaign tent at his headquarters in Virginia in 1865. Bettmann/Getty Images Tucked away in ...

"Forget, hell!" : the Civil War in southern memory / Charles Joyner -- Confederate identity and the southern myth since the Civil War / Bruce Collins -- Unfinished business : African Americans and the ...

MARIETTA -- A special meeting of the Civil War Round Table of the Mid-Ohio Valley will be 7 p.m. Thursday, May 22, at First Congregational Church, 318 Front St., Marietta. The presentation will ...

Ulysses S. Grant is often dismissed as a simple butcher of his troops. In fact, Grant was an inspired military leader with a genius for issuing lucid orders, maneuvering his troops adroitly, and ...

Reconstruction might be the single most difficult moment in the American past. It came in the wake of what might be the bravest moment, the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery. But the ...

As they paraded by him for the first time in March of 1864, soldiers of the Army of the Potomac knew the general in full dress blues, accented with sash and sword, was the freshly minted commander of ...

A photo of Ulysses S. Grant at City Point highlights an important moment in the Civil War and his path to the presidency. The ...

Tucked away in an amendment to the FY2023 U.S. defense authorization bill is a rare instance of congressional bipartisanship and a tribute to U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant. If approved, the measure ...