Grant's Great-Grandfather, KIA

  I stopped at Crown Point on my way home this week, crossing over to New York from Vermont on the bridge seen above, next to the scant rema...

  • Salisbury, MA talk coming up Wednesday
     I will be speaking and PowerPointing this Wednesday May 8 at the Civil War Roundtable of the Merrimack, Hilton Senior Center, 43 Lafayette ...
  • Treason, Mercy and George H. Thomas
    On this date in 1861, newly promoted US Army Colonel George Thomas, serving under Major General Robert Patterson, was stationed in souther...
  • The top of Mount McGregor
      Something new this year at Grant Cottage, the Saratoga County, NY site where Ulysses S. Grant completed his memoirs and died in 1885. The ...