Snider worked for the publishing house for 19 years as a foreman before the building, along with much of downtown, was burned ...
At Cold Harbor, Grant launched a furious assault against what he thought was a tired and beaten enemy—and suffered a bloody ...
He had experience in Congress as both a representative and senator, and had been secretary of war under President Franklin ...
Virginia did not allow Black residents to vote until after the Civil War. But during the war, a group of Black soldiers in ...