LOUISIANA, Mo. — Greg Wolk of the Missouri Humanities Council offered a free program on Ulysses S. Grant at the Louisiana home of Stephen and Pamela Moss on July 17. The presentation focused upon Grant’s five months of leadership in 1861 with the Union army during the Civil War. Wolk discussed four men who were potential nemeses for Grant, but said the general often sidetracked himself. In the end, Grant’s determination and good fortune put him on the path in leading the Union to victory and becoming the 18th President. Moss dressed for the occasion as Missouri U.S. Sen. John Brooks Henderson, who once owned the house and was the lawmaker who drafted and introduced the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery.