History Snob on MSN

Ulysses S Grant, the general who would have rather been a poet

We often picture Ulysses S. Grant as the fierce, cigar-chomping military commander who grimly led the Union army to victory during the American Civil War. His stern gaze looks out from historical ...
Parkersburg News and Sentinel

Ulysses S. Grant taking reins at Civil War Round Table of the Mid-Ohio Valley

Acclaimed Civil War reenactor and historian Curt Fields, Ph.D., will present “This Cruel War is Over: What Now?” at a special meeting of the Civil War Round Table at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 22, at the ...
dailyfreeman.com

Civil War general and Seneca leader Ely Samuel Parker posthumously admitted to New York State Bar

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Ely Samuel Parker, a Seneca leader and Civil War officer who served in President Ulysses S. Grant’s cabinet, was posthumously admitted Friday to the New York State Bar, an ...
insider.si.edu

Ulysses S. Grant : a victor, not a butcher : the military genius of the man who won the Civil War / Edward H. Bonekemper, III

Ulysses S. Grant is often dismissed as a simple butcher of his troops. In fact, Grant was an inspired military leader with a genius for issuing lucid orders, maneuvering his troops adroitly, and ...