Tag Archives: “Grant’s Memoirs”

Grant and Buckner: Three Conversations

Posted on February 5, 2018 by Feather Schwartz Foster

U.S. Grant and S.B. Buckner were cadets at West Point. Cadets Grant and Buckner Ulysses S. Grant, class of 1843, and Simon Bolivar Buckner, class of 1844, were both midwesterners of middle-class standing both financially and academically. West Point classes … Continue reading →

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Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Davis: A Healing Friendship

Posted on September 26, 2016 by Feather Schwartz Foster

Two Civil war icons, one North, one South, finally met in old age, and became friends. Varina Davis: The Confederate Queen Varina Davis (1826-1905) first appeared on a national stage when she was eighteen and recently married to Congressional widower … Continue reading →

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