On this day in 1864, President Abraham Lincoln promoted Ulysses S. Grant, a major general in the U.S. Army, to the rank of lieutenant general. The document placed Grant, who would go on to become ...

On this day in 1864, President Abraham Lincoln promoted Ulysses S. Grant, a major general in the U.S. Army, to the rank of lieutenant general. The document placed Grant, who would go on to become ...

A collector believes a photograph from a private album of Civil War Gen. Ulysses S. Grant shows President Abraham Lincoln in front of the White House and could be the last image taken of him ...

A collector believes a photograph from a private album of Civil War Gen. Ulysses S. Grant shows President Abraham Lincoln in front of the White House and could be the last image taken of him ...

A collector believes a photograph from a private album of Civil War Gen. Ulysses S. Grant shows President Abraham Lincoln in front of the White House and could be the last image taken of him ...

More than a million people attended Ulysses Grant’s funeral in New York City on Aug. 8, 1885. That was more people than came out to mourn Abraham Lincoln, the man who had served as president ...

Take the case of Ulysses S. Grant and Abraham Lincoln and a bitter rift between their wives that could have affected what happened at Ford’s Theater in Washington at the end of the Civil War. ...

WASHINGTON — A collector believes a photograph from a private album of Civil War Gen. Ulysses S. Grant shows President Abraham Lincoln in front of the White House and could be the last image ...

Abraham Lincoln was a revolutionary figure, but also a compassionate one. The 16th president’s character is apparent in a never-before-seen document obtained exclusively by the Daily News, ap… ...

Grant battered the slave-owning South into surrender as President Abraham Lincoln's top Union general, yet he owned at least one enslaved person before the war.

Revisiting that history with any sense of intentionality involves reassessing the legacies of leaders such as Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant whose policies drove those processes — no ...

Union General Ulysses S. Grant, astride a horse, in Chicago’s Lincoln Park. CST Share The current flurry of concern about the appropriateness of monuments on public display seems to have begun ...