Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National ...

It would become his calling card, not backing down. Once Grant was brought East, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee faced the ...

Surrender is one of the most essential rules in international humanitarian law. Don't expect it any time soon in the Middle ...

Let’s hope that Elon Musk is, indeed, a latter-day Grant, doggedly pursuing the spending that strangles our country, ...

A plus is Appomattox annually welcomes a little ... is where, on April 9, 1865, Union General Ulysses S. Grant accepted the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern ...

A few weeks after becoming general-in-chief of the Confederate states, Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House in Virginia on April 9, 1865, to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, against whom he had ...

Hiram Ulysses Grant was nominated to West Point in 1844 by Ohio Congressman ... Grant also accepted the surrender of rebel armies at Vicksburg, Miss. and Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, VA.

Mass deportation of nonwhites was still very much on the table after the Civil War. A week after surrendering to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 14, 1865, Robert E. Lee (who was to ...