President Grant gave the pen he used to sign the 15th Amendment to a fellow Civil War veteran, Herbert Preston. Copyright © 2017 by Wendel A. White President Ulysses ...

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For generations, Americans learned the same basic story about the end of the Civil ...

Grant's memoirs, completed only days before his death, are considered among the best of any written about the Civil War.

In an 1890 War Department report, Lewis Grant (no relation to Ulysses) struggled with the Civil War pension claim of a former soldier, John Barleyoung. The department was ready to dismiss Barleyoung’s ...

April 9 marks the 160th anniversary of the day America’s Civil War ended when General Lee surrendered to General Grant at the ...

By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, April 9, the 99th day of 2025. There are 266 days left in the year. Today in ...

The Tennessee Wars Commission administers the application and grant processes. With this round of grants the Civil War Sites Preservation Fund has now allocated $20,312,188.32 in matching funds ...

It was in this month in 1865 the Civil War was largely ended, and the long painful task of rebuilding the nation began. It was on April 9, Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses Grant. On April 14, ...