General William Tecumseh Sherman’s wartime sword, likely used between 1861 ... annotated copy of Ulysses S. Grant’s memoirs. Sherman, a West Point graduate, was superintendent of a military ...

Stony Ford co-owner Susan Brinson provided the strongest evidence yet that Ulysses S. Grant did in fact smoke a cigar at the Goshen estate in his waning days. Grant historian Ben Kemp found ...

MA" — a prominent clothing and military outfitting company that produced official presentation swords. Also inscribed on the blade are “1861-1865,” marking the span of the Civil War, and “General ...

For much of his life, Ulysses S. Grant failed at every occupation he tried. But in the United States Army, his remarkable talents as a soldier and leader saved his country from falling apart.

Ulysses S. Grant continued the American tradition of electing military figures as presidents—those men who led and won key battles in war. Attempting to be apolitical, Grant campaigned on the ...

As they paraded by him for the first time in March of 1864, soldiers of the Army of the Potomac knew the general in full dress blues, accented with sash and sword, was the freshly minted commander of ...