William Tecumseh Sherman had a lot in common with Ulysses S. Grant. Like Grant, he was born in Ohio. Like Grant, he graduated from the military academy at West Point. Like Grant, he failed as a ...

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

The popular barbecue joint opened in Pendleton in 2018. Back then, Enquirer food critic Polly Campbell said it was the best ...

He was under orders to scout a suitable site for a military post, a mission personally approved by President Ulysses ... s commanding general and Sheridan’s immediate superior, William T. Sherman.

Mississippi honors those who fought for the Confederacy against the United States in the Civil War. Who tried to drop the ...

Lee surrendered to Ulysses ... William Tecumseh Sherman, the largest surrender of the war. The religious faith of these men was varied like the American population today. On the Union side, Grant ...

Richland County has an interesting link to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln -- and the death of his killer, John Wilkes Booth.

A depiction of General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox ... including the right to vote. As William McCoslin of the 29 th Regiment USCT put it in a May 1865 letter, “We the colored soldiers ...

Ulysses S. Grant, Lincoln’s victorious Civil War general ... served nearly a full presidential term after William McKinley’s death in 1901. When Roosevelt was elected in his own right in ...

William Sherman in Bennett Place, North Carolina, which many in the Confederacy felt marked the end of the Civil War. Lee had surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Gen. Ulysses S.