During the Civil War, Grant earned the nickname “Unconditional Surrender” – a play on his initials – after he captured an entire Confederate army in February 1862. It was the first major northern ...
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 ...
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How Grant and Lee Faced Off in the Civil War
The showdown between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee marked the climactic struggle of the American Civil War. As Grant pressed a relentless campaign of attrition, Lee relied on tactical brilliance ...
Ulysses S. Grant was not quite 40 in April 1861 when Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, beginning the Civil War. Grant, a West Point graduate and Mexican American War veteran, had resigned from the ...
The Civil War ripped apart nearly every bond Americans shared — classmates, friends, even family members found themselves on ...
A new edition of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s memoirs has been annotated by some of the nation’s leading Civil War ...
The saying “No man is a hero to his valet” was clearly not coined with Ulysses S. Grant and Harrison Terrell in mind. Terrell, who had been born into slavery two decades before the Civil War, spent a ...
GALENA, Ill. (Amazing America) — Step back in time in Galena, Illinois, where you can tour incredible historic places, and even some filming locations for the iconic baseball movie Field of Dreams.
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