Mustered Out…The U.S. Colored Troops

“Mustered Out,” Little Rock, Arkansas, April 20, 1865 by Alfred R. Waud.

Image Credit: Harper’s Weekly, May 19, 1866 courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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CHERNOW: Grant (2017)

Grant by Ron Chernow. Penguin Press, 2017. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1594204876. $40.00. The standard interpretation of Ulysses S. Grant’s life usually recounts an undistinguished West Point and antebellum army career ended by alcohol abuse,…