The latest exhibit at your Missouri History Museum in Forest Park chronicles the lives of the two most famous generals of the Civil War – Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant. The Civil War, the ...

One hundred fifty years ago, in July 1860, Robert E. Lee was in Texas, commanding a regiment in the U.S. Army. Ulysses S. Grant was working in his father's store in Galena, Ill. Less than four years ...

As they paraded by him for the first time in March of 1864, soldiers of the Army of the Potomac knew the general in full dress blues, accented with sash and sword, was the freshly minted commander of ...