Professor Brooks Simpson talked about Union General Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign, which was a series of battles fought in Virginia during May and June of 1864 during the U.S. Civil War.

Among the national issues of intense local interest were presidential politics: Could Lincoln win again? The Republican ran the results of a poll taken among 18,000 troops where only 582 voted ...

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.

In September 1864, with his army stalemated in a siege at Petersburg, Virginia, Ulysses S. Grant approved of a plan by General Benjamin Butler to take two Union corps north of the James River for ...

From his headquarters lodgment at the John Barbour House—then located where the Confederate Monument (1911) stands today on West Davis Street—General Ulysses S. Grant crafted plans 150 years ...

GEN. GRANT IN COMMAND.; His Official Order Announcing the Fact. Present Headquarters to be with the Army of the Potomac. Departure of the General from Nashville for the East.

BRAXTON BRAGG has just been appointed to the highest military office under JEFF. DAVIS, and ULYSSES GRANT, by his appointment as Lieutenant-General, assumes the highest rank of any officer in the ...

Episode Six begins with a biographical comparison of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee and then chronicles the extraordinary series of battles that pitted the two generals against each other from ...

Needing a major military victory to regain popular support for the war effort, Lincoln appointed the brilliant and aggressive Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant to command all Union armies, including the ...

Thousands of Civil War re-enactors will gather at Brandy Station, Va., next weekend to commemorate the 135th anniversary of the 1864 Virginia campaign, which marked the beginning of the end for the… ...

On June 30, 1864, as the Civil War was beginning its final summer of carnage, President Abraham Lincoln took time out to create America's first national park. The Yosemite Grant set aside 39,000 ...