Abraham Lincoln Appoints Leet to Ulysses S. Grant’s Staff and Gives Him a Promotion

As Grant Arrives in Washington to Take Control of All Union Forces in 1864

Gen. Grant Appoints a Major General to Succeed Disgraced General Hurlbut

Grant Orders an Investigation into the Murder of an Indian, Wounding of Women

The report, apparently a cover-up, states that the only people involved were an “inferior class of Indians and Negroes, Indian scouts and quartermaster’s employees.”

Grant Orders Protection For Freed Slaves Living at the Arlington Estate of Robert E. Lee

U.S. Grant Orders General Meade to Prepare Defenses to Foil a Potential Flanking by Lee

The Launching of the Overland Campaign of May 1864