The annual tribute Sunday to the hard-driving Confederate lieutenant general coincided this year with the 190th anniversary of his July 13 birth and the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil ...

The annual tribute Sunday to the hard-driving Confederate lieutenant general coincided this year with the 190th anniversary of his July 13 birth and the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil ...

On hundreds of courthouse lawns and public parks North and South, statues of sword-waving generals and monuments to hometown heroes of the Civil War abound. But there has always been one conspicuou… ...

In the Army hierarchy, officer ranks are structured into three tiers: company grade, field grade, and general. Company grade officers, designated in the ranks of O-1 to O-3, form the initial tier ...

At the end of the Civil War, Grant was already the highest-ranking officer in the Army at the time, a lieutenant general. He was the first to wear that rank since then-President John Adams ...

The last army base once named for Confederate general, Fort Gordon in Georgia, is now Fort Eisenhower. It's a major milestone in reversing decades of propaganda surrounding the Confederate cause.