In 2022-23, to honor Ulysses Grant’s bicentennial year, the U. S. Grant Trail produced and partially funded a touring exhibit entitled “Ulysses Grant’s Missouri.” Major funding was provided by the Missouri Humanities Council. The exhibit visited 15 venues in 13 months, and in the process was viewed by more than 17,000 people. We are readying the text and images for publication in other forms and media.
The National U. S. Grant Trail Association has also “inherited” 40 interpretive panels that had been erected during the time of and since the Civil War sesquicentennial by Missouri’s Civil War Heritage Foundation. Although neither the current nor the predecessor organization has legal responsibility to maintain, repair or replace these panels, many of them are specific to Grant’s time in Missouri in 1861. Where the in-ground aluminum frames are intact, the fiberglass panels can be easily and inexpensively replaced to reflect our new organization’s sponsorship, and where appropriate to designate official Ulysses Grant heritage sites. To view samples of these panels [click here].