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The Battle of Yellow Tavern on May 11, 1864, is one of the smaller battles fought during General Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign. The battle itself was not terribly significant except for the fact that the great Confederate cavalry commander…

Across the Mississippi River in the Trans-Mississippi district (that included states west of the Mississippi River and the Indian Territory), Missouri was an undecided and undeclared state. Men joined and formed regiments; they marched, drilled, and…

Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign was the beginning of the end of the war in Virginia. At this point, General Grant had been promoted and commanded all Union armies, but he retained Maj. Gen. George G. Meade as Commander of the Army of…

The day after the South’s devastating loss at Gettysburg, the Confederacy suffered another major setback when the key river city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, surrendered to General Ulysses Grant on July 4, 1863, after a 47-day siege. I had not visited…