March 6, 2012
President Ulysses S. Grant was known as a horseman, but few realize the extent of his mastery in the saddle. His son Frederick said: “My father was the best horseman in the army, he rode splendidly and always on magnificent and fiery horses … Oftentimes, I saw him ride a beast that none had approached.”
February 21, 2012
With a legacy as author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” and as a thought leader, Julia Ward Howe influenced the course of the Civil War. She stuck to her resolution of writing what she thought, no matter whom it offended (her own husband included). Yet, she was known as a builder. “Ambitious people climb,” she said, “but faithful people build.”