As Union General Ulysses S ... and his future political career. Grant’s order responded to an unsettling economic reality: Despite the war raging around them, Southern planters still wanted ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

Grant rose from comparative obscurity to become general in chief of the Union army ... are considered among the best of any written about the Civil War.

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought ...

As a soldier, General Ulysses S. Grant had depended upon ... failing to stop a fight between two cadets. But by then the Civil War had broken out, and the Army needed all the officers it could ...

This nearly 10-acre site is dedicated to the U.S. Civil War general and two-term U.S. president, Ulysses S. Grant, who lived here with his wife, family and enslaved workers in the 1850s.