After Grant was voted in to succeed Johnson, he appointed Longstreet as the surveyor of customs for New Orleans. Governor ...

From 1861 to 1865, the United States was ripped in two by war – with the Union in the North and the seceded states, the Confederacy, in the South. These four years witnessed unprecedented bloodshed, ...

After we discovered it, Roberta and I always stop at Fox’s Gap. There is the Reno Monument, where the 39-year-old general died. It’s strange and a bit eerie to stand in the spot where someone was shot ...