The Mexican War, though only two years long, weighs heavily among the direct causes of the American Civil War. The new territories won by the…
On April 30, 1871, the Camp Grant massacre took place. Tensions had been rising between the Apache Indians and American settlers. But the commander of…
Grant’s cabin at City Point: it is seriously small, leaving no doubt of Mr. and Mrs. Grant’s genuine love and physical affection for each other.…
As the NPS ranger described Dr. Richard Eppes, plantation owner at City Point, Virginia — that he inhabited the very upper echelons of wealth, that his 2300-acre…
A photo of Grant’s aide Rawlins and his family, posted on Sean McLachlan’s Civil War Horror blog, struck me as being remarkably similar to this,…
The winner of the Most Handsome Civil War General sweepstakes: U.S. Grant, in this picture. The hat, the frock coat and vest, his expression, the…