The Federal Memorial tartan is on my short list to honor my two great great grandfathers who served from Illinois and Ohio. The former in Tennessee and the later defending D.C. against Early.

The Illinois guy came home and named his first son Grant after U.S. Grant and that name has come down through the generations to be a middle name for my father, myself, my daughter, and my granddaughter.

The Federal Memorial tartan made more sense to me than the Grant clan tartan.

Ron