For a guy known for giving us Memorial Day, Gen. John A. Logan is not much remembered in these parts. Sure, protesters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention famously climbed all over the ...

the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have taken the lives of more than 6,000 American soldiers. As for General Logan? He eventually succumbed to those wounds he suffered during the Civil War.

At the time, Maj. Gen. John A. Logan, who served in the Mexican-American War and the Civil War, declared that Decoration Day should be observed in May because flowers would be in bloom all across ...

While many see it as the unofficial start of summer with barbecues, family gatherings and a long weekend, its origins are rooted in the aftermath of the Civil War. Central to this story is John ...

“John A. Logan may be the most noteworthy nineteenth century American to escape notice in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries,” Civil War historian Gary Ecelbarger said, a quote chosen to ...