Find out more about the people and events featured in the film.

People:

• Henry Adams, 1838-1918
• Mary Lucinda Bonney, 1816-1900
• Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
• George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
• Julia Dent Grant, 1826-1902
• Julia and Ulysses Grant's Children
• Jesse Root Grant (1794-1873) and Hannah Simpson Grant (1798-1883)
• Ulysses S. Grant, 1822-1885
• General Robert E. Lee, 1807-1870
• Red Cloud
• Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865
• Mary Livermore (1820-1905) and the U.S. Sanitary Commission
• Winfield Scott, 1786-1866
• William Tecumseh Sherman, 1820-1891
• Charles Sumner, 1811-1874
• Zachary Taylor, 1784-1850
• Annie Turner Wittenmyer, 1827-1900

Events:

• The Mexican American War, 1846-1848
• Grant's Greatest Battles
• Rise of the Ku Klux Klan
• The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
• Black Friday, September 24, 1869
• Passage of the Fifteenth Amendment
• The Panic of 1873
• The Colfax Massacre
• The Centennial Exposition of 1876
• The Disputed Election of 1876
• Grant's World Tour
• Grant's Funeral March