Lincoln was, as usual, astute. The abolitionist movement in the North was led by Christians convinced that God abhorred ...

Petersburg National Battlefield is located in South-central Virginia. The park offers driving tours of the siege and bat ...

John Adams, a founder of the United States and its second president, privately expressed doubts that the republic would ...

Juneteenth, the day commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, is not a state holiday in Florida. Here's what to ...

MARIETTA — A special meeting of the Civil War Round Table of the Mid-Ohio Valley will be 7 p.m. Thursday, May 22, at First Congregational Church, 318 Front St., Marietta. The presentation will ...

APPOMATTOX COUNTY, Va. – Appomattox Court House National Historical Park is commemorating the 160th anniversary of the victory of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, which forced the surrender of Gen ...

In 1868, Grant was the obvious choice for the Republican nomination and he handily won the election that November. Ulysses S. Grant was set to become the 18th President of the United States.

Appomattox Court House National Historical Park is located in South Central Virginia. The park interprets the final even ...

This Tuesday marked the 159th anniversary of Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox — the beginning of the end of a bitter and bloody civil war. From the modern American ...

The victor in one war, Ulysses S. Grant, as president, saw the need to launch another—on the South’s brutal lawlessness.