Ulysses S Grant
Grant is in Grant's Tomb. Sorry to spoil the riddle for you.
Grant is in Grant's Tomb. Sorry to spoil the riddle for you.
A trip to Greeneville takes some doing. But it is very, very worth it.
It's not every day that you see a painting of an assassin inside the victim's tomb.
Lincoln's body has been moved more times than a journeyman infielder through the National League, but with 12 feet of concrete overhead he's not going anywhere these days.
A number of presidents are considered failures; Franklin Pierce is one of them. But he had a pretty good excuse: everyone in his life was dying around him.
Everything about the national cemetery named for Zachary Taylor is perfect. Well, everything but one thing.
Polk's tomb is easy to overlook because it's behind a prominent memorial to Tennessee's best-known president, Andrew Jackson.
When the pro-Confederate Tyler died, the US government issued no acknowledgement of his passing - in effect saying "you're dead to us." Which he was.
It would be easy to chalk William Henry Harrison's career up to the Battle of Tippecanoe and an inability to put a coat on in the snow. His tomb gives much better context.
The grave is like a reverse mullet; the business, in this case, is in the back and the party is in the front. Or something.