President Grant gave the pen he used to sign the 15th Amendment to a fellow Civil War veteran, Herbert Preston. Copyright © 2017 by Wendel A. White President Ulysses ...

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

GEORGETOWN – Congressman Dave Taylor (OH-02) presented a resolution honoring the life of President Ulysses S. Grant to Land of U.S. Grant Inc. at yesterday’s Brown County Historical Society meeting.

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

Even though Georgetown was the county seat in the early 1800s, it was little more than a small frontier town. Its population was just a few hundred. Everybody knew everybody else, as is basically ...

April 9 marks 160 years of the anniversary of when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at ...

William Tecumseh Sherman had a lot in common with Ulysses S. Grant. Like Grant ... batter the Confederates into submission during the Civil War. In fact, Sherman spent much of his life providing ...

He was under orders to scout a suitable site for a military post, a mission personally approved by President Ulysses S. Grant ... over politics since the Civil War. After Belknap usurped the ...

The Struggle to End the American Civil War” By Michael Vorenberg, read by Landon Woodson. Random House Audio, 16½ hours, $28.