April 9, 2014 marked the 149th anniversary of Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House. Abraham Lincoln would only be alive for less than a week following the surrender.

It was an improbable close relationship between two 19th century giants — an extroverted, celebrated writer and a reserved Civil War general who became president. In the last year of his life, Ulysses ...

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Read an electronic edition of Ulysses Grant's famous Personal Memoirs, a 19th-century bestseller. Battling terminal throat cancer, Grant raced to complete his account of the Civil War. Thousands of ...

Susan Ford Wiltshire, a native of Texas, is professor of classics emerita at Vanderbilt University. My connection with the U.S. Civil War is direct and personal. My great-grandmother, Helen Hambrick ...

Considered the high watermark of Civil War literature, the autobiography of Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs, has now been abridged to focus exclusively on the war. The Civil War Memoirs of Ulysses ...

I read two books that are pertinent to our times: Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserables”and Ulysses Grant’s autobiography. Hugo described life in the Middle Ages. Police forces didn’t exist but military ...

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s memoir, A Journey, is sparking all sorts of picketing and protesting around the U.K., so we thought it might be a good time to take a look at a few ...

The country was in rough shape when President Ulysses S. Grant took office in 1869. Some pundits and political scientists have speculated the United States is at risk of another civil war, albeit one ...