Outside Vicksburg

Ulysses S. Grant was a much better President than commonly thought, taking on the Klan and  pushing for fairness in the South.

The Army has named ten military bases in honor of men who killed 365,000 U.S. soldiers. Should they be renamed? Or left as they are, since the bases are part of a “Great American Heritage," as President Trump says?

Ulysses S. Grant had to respond to more charges of misconduct that took the form of financial corruption than any other president.

With his command threatened by allegations of drunkenness, Ulysses S. Grant went on the attack, won two major victories, demanded “Unconditional Surrender”, and nearly split the Confederacy in half.

In one momentous decision, Robert E. Lee spared the United States years of divisive violence

An impetuous and sometimes corrupt Congress has often hamstrung the efforts of the president since the earliest days of the Republic

The memoirs of Civil War correspondent SYLVANUS CADWALLADER were recently discovered and edited by Lincoln biographer Benjamin Thomas

Most terrible steamboat disaster in history, probably, was the loss of the Sultana in 1865. Some 1,700 returning Union veterans died—yet the tragedy got very few headlines.

Lincoln painstakingly evolved a plan for harmonious reconstruction of the Union, which Radical Republicans moved to sabotage