Amos T. Akerman was a curious case to become President Ulysses S. Grant's attorney general, as depicted in Guy Gugliotta’s ...

During the Civil War, President Lincoln conferred with Grant on an Epps plantation (Appomattox Manor) in Virginia, from which Grant commanded the Union Army. Owned by the Epps family for 344 years, ...

Fred explained that his address (drawn from the 1887 memoir) blended “the campaign and siege of Vicksburg as taken from official records, as well as incidents seen by me when a boy of twelve.” (p. 1) ...