According to Goodstein, Brown named two more streets that ran through his land after other Civil War heroes: Ulysses S. Grant and scorched-earth General William Tecumseh Sherman.

Millard Fillmore, the 13th president of the United States, is often remembered as a transitional figure in the turbulent years leading up to the American Civil War. His presidency is most notable for ...

Dr. Allen C. Guelzo gives perspective on what the American Civil War was really about. Dr. Allen C. Guelzo the Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar at Princeton University talks about ...

The suspension seems to have extended to the bishop himself, for he unusually made no journal entry on Sept. 18 and 19 while the celebration was in town. President Millard Fillmore's own history with ...

In September 1851, Boston and Montreal were connected by railroad. The cities celebrated the completion of an interconnecting railroad through Canada and New Hampshire down to Boston with a three-day ...

President Fillmore’s party would not forgive him for all the concessions he had made to the South. So, when he attempted a re-election bid in 1852 he failed to secure his party’s nomination.

The only president to date to leave office for four years and then stage a comeback was more than 100 years ago with the ...

The underground railroad that flourished before the Civil War was a very different form of travel. It had no tracks, trains or stations; although it did use the same nomenclature. Conductors guided ...

Many of them, like Franklin Pierce, Millard Fillmore, and James Buchanan, either fanned the flames of conflict in the pre-Civil War years or stood by as tension built between the North and the South.