BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Ely Samuel Parker, a Seneca leader and Civil War officer who served in President Ulysses S. Grant’s ...

In the 1840s, Parker was denied admission to the New York State bar, despite meeting all the requirements and training to ...

A Seneca Nation leader from the Tonawanda Band of Seneca and Civil War general is set to become the first-ever Native ...

Ely Samuel Parker, a Native American who served as an aide to Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War, was kept from practicing ...

Ely S. Parker, a Tonawanda Seneca from western New York, never took no for an answer. At the start of the Civil War, Parker’s ...

This volume follows up on the thesis presented in Prof. Varney's earlier book, General Grant and the Rewriting of History, in which he argued that Ulysses S. Grant deliberately sought to discredit Maj ...

The 12th annual Ulysses S. Grant Symposium will be held Friday, Nov. 7, at Kellerman-Lorimier Hall in Cape Girardeau, featuring three Grant experts and a tribute to the late Frank Nickell. According ...

While Reading Brad Neely’s “You, Me, and Ulysses S. Grant,” I kept thinking of Norman O. Brown’s writing about the excremental vision, as employed by Jonathan Swift and James Joyce, and applied to a ...

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 ...

John Reeves - Author, Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant At the beginning of the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant wasn’t an abolitionist, admitting that his ...

COLUMBUS — Bidders will fight with their dollars next week at an Ohio auction house for the sword of the Civil War Union general who led a scorched-earth campaign across Georgia and coined the phrase ...

Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee took a somewhat inappropriate fancy to his young cousin, Markie. He wrote her letters of such aggressive flirtation that even women accustomed to the dynamics of ...