Based in Gettysburg, Kenneth Serfass has been studying his boyhood hero Ulysses S. Grant for nearly 50 years. He started interpreting Grant since 2009 and has appeared from coast to coast as both General Grant and President Grant. Visit his website, US Grant in Living History.
Serfass has developed a series of 15-20 minute videos, How the Civil War Was Won in the West. You can watch the first episode, Part I: Forts Henry and Donelson, below.
The full series contains seven parts and goes through Chattanooga, with bonus episodes on the U.S. Navy at Vicksburg and “Grant’s Indian,” about the partnership with General Ely Parker, a Tonawanda Seneca and trusted ally who would follow Grant into the White House as the first indigenous member of a presidential cabinet.
Stay tuned — Serfass is planning to publish a second series on Grant’s campaigns of 1864-1865.