The Appalachian Trail runs across the site. At one end of the clearing rests a small obelisk surrounded by a waist-high wall. The monument commemorates a major general of the Union Army who fell ...

As Union General Ulysses S ... and his future political career. Grant’s order responded to an unsettling economic reality: Despite the war raging around them, Southern planters still wanted ...

The National Defense Authorization Act has passed Congress every year since 1961. On Thursday, the House approved the military funding bill on a 350-80 vote. It now heads to the Senate. Spending ...