On the morning of June 12, 1864, the Washington, D.C.-based photographer Mathew Brady achieved the American Civil War’s best-known portrait…
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American Civil War, Western Theatre, Vicksburg campaign. Before dawn on June 7, 1863, 1,500 Confederate soldiers from Texas attacked the…
American Civil War, Western Theater, Vicksburg campaign. Ulysses S. Grant’s May 19 and May 22 assaults on Vicksburg both failed. Ron…
Civil War, Western Theater, Vicksburg campaign. On May 22, 1863, Major General Ulysses S. Grant ordered a second assault against the…
Washington, D.C. On May 20, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed into law the Homestead Act. (Text of the act here.)…
American Civil War, Western Theater, Vicksburg Campaign. With historical hindsight, we see that Ulysses S. Grant’s victory at the Battle…
Georgetown, Ohio. Ulysses S. Grant’s boyhood. Brooks D. Simpson in his biography Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity (2014), describes…
American Civil War, Western Theater, Vicksburg Campaign. The Battle of Raymond, Mississippi, on May 12, 1863, altered Major General Ulysses…
American Civil War, Western Theater, Vicksburg Campaign. The Battle of Raymond occurred on May 12, 1863, during Ulysses S. Grant’s campaign…
Mexican-American War, Resaca de la Palma, today near Brownsville, Texas. On May 9, 1846, the day after the Battle of…
Point Pleasant, Ohio, U.S.A. Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) was born on this day, April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio….
Civil War, Western Theater. On April 25, 1862, the forces of Flag Officer David Glasgow Farragut seize New Orleans, Louisiana….
Washington, D.C. On April 14, 1865, U.S. president Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater in…
Civil War, Western Theater. 160 years ago today, on April 6, 1862, a Sunday, the two-day Battle of Shiloh erupted—the…
Civil War, Eastern Theater, Peninsula Campaign. On April 1, 1862, the movement of 12 divisions of Major General George B….