Acclaimed Civil War reenactor and historian Curt Fields, Ph.D., will present “This Cruel War is Over: What Now?” at a special meeting of the Civil War Round Table at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 22, at the ...

Posture erect, face tired but proud, Robert E. Lee walked down the steps of the McLean House in Appomattox, Va. The date was April 9, not 1865 but 2015, the 150th anniversary of the surrender of the ...

This small town in northwest Illinois is pulling out all the stops to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender to Gen. U. S. Grant, marking the beginning of the end of 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 ...

This video offers a historic walkthrough of Ulysses S. Grant’s residence in Galena, IL, where he lived after the Civil War. The home is preserved with many original family artifacts and serves as a ...

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 ...

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 12th annual Ulysses S. Grant Symposium will be held Friday, Nov. 7, at Kellerman-Lorimier Hall in Cape Girardeau, featuring three Grant experts and a tribute to the late Frank Nickell. According ...

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 ...