Gen.l U.S. Grant
date: label: Date made
content: n.d.
name: label: depicted
content: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)
label: publisher
content: Wilson, M. W.
notes: label: Description
content: General Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant at Point Pleasant, Ohio, in 1822. After attending West Point, he gained distinction fighting as a captain in the Mexican-American War. When the fighting ended, he was assigned to isolated frontier posts, where his heavy drinking interfered with his duties, leading him to resign in 1854. At the outbreak of the Civil War six years later, he immediately enlisted in the Union Army, and was promoted to brigadier general in July of 1861. In July of 1863, he captured Vicksburg, an event often seen as a turning point in the war, and was given command of all Union armies in March of 1864. Brutal engagements with Confederate forces at the battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor decimated Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, and the Virginian surrendered his battered force to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. After the war, Grant’s fame carried him to the White House, and he served two terms of Presidency, from 1869 to 1877.
label: Description
content: This undated print of Grant depicts the general in military uniform, gazing out towards the viewer. The portrait, however, bears little resemblance to the image of Grant with which viewers have become familiar. Probably printed around the beginning of the war, during the North’s early exposure to the Union generals, this work was erroneously based on a photograph of a Cairo, Illinois, meat-packer, who was said to share similar features with the general. Since its publisher, Minard W. Wilson of New York, produced sheet music during the Civil War, this print possibly served as an accompanying illustration to a patriotic hymns.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Uniforms, Military
label: referenced
content: Civil War
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: American Civil War Prints
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.3159
label: catalog number
content: 60.3159
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 10 1/2 in x 8 in; 26.67 cm x 20.32 cm