It would become his calling card, not backing down. Once Grant was brought East, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee faced the ...

Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National ...

Surrender is one of the most essential rules in international humanitarian law. Don't expect it any time soon in the Middle ...

This article was written by Jim Beaugez. The surrender of Vicksburg by Confederate Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton to Union forces ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

Grant's Farm was built by Civil War Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who settled on the land in 1855 to farm and raise cattle. In 1903, August A. Busch Sr. bought the land, and ever since it has belonged to ...

1899: Prince Alfred of Edinburgh, grandson of Queen Victoria, dies aged 24 in mysterious circumstances. On the same day, the ...

In a world where parents prefer unique baby names with meaningful origins, there’s no better source of inspiration than the land of the free and home of the brave.

America’s first IRS commissioner helped raise the vast sums needed to wage the Civil War and was a strong advocate of racial equality.

It's been nearly half a century since he died in 1979, and yet no actor has wholly embodied the role of cinematic cowboy ...