Or so the Jan. 18, 2009 Chicago Tribune headline read. In the Chicagoland section, there was a picture of Grant in uniform with his family.
Megan Twohey wrote that the University of Virginia had the Thomas Jefferson papers, Columbia had those of Alexander Hamilton, and Southern Illinois University HAD the US Grant ones. But not any more.
After a year-long conflict with the Carbondale school, the US Grant Association, which owns the material relocated the 100 file cabinets to Mississippi State University. The first president of this institution was former Confederate General Stephen D. Lee.
Soldiers from Mississippi battled Grant's forces in Corinth, Port Gibson, and Vicksburg.
Score One for the Old Confederacy. --B-Runner
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
