General Ulysses S. Grant and his 50,000 man army of Tennessee were on a roll. In February of 1862, Grant’s army captured Ft. Henry on the Cumberland River and a week later Ft. Donelson on the ...

Shiloh National Military Park in Tennessee was the site of a bloody Civil War battle to control the Confederate Railroad ...

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. Born ...

The first day of the Battle of Shiloh was an absolute debacle for Ulysses S. Grant’s Army of the Tennessee. On April 6, 1862, the five federal divisions at Pittsburgh Landing were caught with ...

Heartland’s Tim Benson is once again joined by Fergus M. Bordewich to discuss his new book, Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction.They chat about the formation of the Ku ...

According to Timothy B. Smith, a history lecturer at the University of Tennessee at Martin, the Battle of Shiloh was the first big battle in the American Civil War. “20,000 dead in two days of ...

KLAN WAR: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction, by Fergus M. Bordewich. As portents go, little could be more ominous than what took place on the evening of March 4, ...

The presentation will feature Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, ... has performed at commemorative observations of the Battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, ...