Profiles the Maryland slave who ran away and eventually returned to the South to help other slaves escape and spy for the Union army, and describes how the Underground Railroad helped bring slaves to freedom.
A biography of Ulysses Grant, from his childhood in Ohio, through his education at West Point and his career as an Army officer, to his terms as president of the United States.
Profiles the West Point graduate who became a soldier during the Mexican War in 1846, and describes how his actions as a Confederate general during the Civil War led others to call him "Stonewall."