Tag: Ulysses S. Grant

• Grant me a Roosevelt biopic

  Why didn’t anyone tell me there are Ulysses Grant and Theodore Roosevelt biopics in the works from Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese? And that Leonardo DiCaprio is attached to star in both of them? The Hollywood Reporter asked a bunch of historians whether Leo should play Grant or Roosevelt. Looking at their pictures above I’d…

  Aug 28, 2018

  # film, history, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, movies, presidents, Steven Spielberg, Theodore Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant

• Lincoln’s letter to Grant: ‘You were right, and I was wrong’

  This letter from President Lincoln to Major General Ulysses Grant in July 1863 might be the last documented instance of a president apologizing for anything: My dear General I do not remember that you and I ever met personally. I write this now as a grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done…

  Feb 26, 2018

  # Abraham Lincoln, Edmund Morris, presidents, The Civil War, Theodore Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant

• Jasper Adalmorn Maltby

  Part of the Cool Civil War Names series. “A friend of Grant’s is a friend of mine,” said Abraham Lincoln, probably. This quote (were it real) holds true today as we consider Jasper Maltby, an Ohio boy who like 99.9% of the Civil War upper echelon served in the Mexican War in the 1840s, and then…

  Nov 29, 2014

  # Cool Civil War Names, history, Jasper Maltby, The Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant

• Gouverneur Kemble Warren

  Part of the Cool Civil War Names series. This guy had what you could call a complicated relationship with the Civil War. Before that, though, he graduated from West Point (duh) in 1850, second in his class, and joined the Corps of Topographical Engineers as a brevet 2nd lieutenant. As part of the transcontinental railroad surveys,…

  Jul 2, 2012

  # Cool Civil War Names, Gouverneur K. Warren, history, Little Round Top, The Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant, West Point

• Jubal Early

  Part of the Cool Civil War Names series. There’s so much Civil War in this guy it makes me want to cry. “Old Jube” (as Robert E. Lee would later come to call him) and his brawny beard fought early and often in the war between the states, but for reasons you wouldn’t suspect from…

  Apr 18, 2012

  # Abraham Lincoln, Confederacy, Cool Civil War Names, Gettysburg, history, Jubal Early, Lost Cause, Robert E. Lee, The Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant

• Sylvanus Cadwallader

  Part of the Cool Civil War Names series. Probably my favorite name thus far. A true journalist during a time when mainstream journalism consisted of BRASH, HYSTERICAL HEADLINES!!! and Limbaughesque vituperation, Cadwallader began his newspaper career in Milwaukee before joining the Chicago Times and later the New York Herald as a war correspondent embedded with General Ulysses…

  Aug 21, 2011

  # Cool Civil War Names, history, journalism, Sylvanus Cadwallader, The Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant