The grant also will help place special QR — quick response — codes near the graves of Civil War veterans in region cemeteries. The codes can be scanned with smartphones or mobile tablets to access ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The enigmatic figure of General Ulysses S. Grant has been the subject of much analysis over recent years, especially as the narrative of “Butcher Grant” has subsided alongside the “Lost Cause” myth.

We'll all probably hear and see plenty about the Civil War in 2011. You see, as all experts of that War Between the States know, April 12 will mark the 150th anniversary of that early morning in 1861 ...

The 12th annual Ulysses S. Grant Symposium will return to historic downtown Cape Girardeau on Friday, Nov. 7, at Kellerman-Lorimier Hall, 401 Independence St. The event, organized by the Kellerman ...

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 ...

"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 ...