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Ulysses S. Grant from West Point to Appomattox
Thure de Thulstrup / Adam Cuerden
1885
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- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
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- This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3a32932. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still…
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- Public domain, as the museum states it.
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- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Grant from West Point to Appomattox, an 1885 engraving presumably intended to commemorate Grant's achievements after his death. A half-length portrait of Ulysses S. Grant is surrounded by nine scenes of his career from West Point graduation in 1843 to Lee's surrender in 1865. Clockwise from lower left:
Graduated at West Point 1843 - Gen. Scott presenting diplomas
In the tower at Chapultepec 1847
Drilling his Volunteers 1861
Fort Donelson 1862
The Battle of Shiloh 1862
The Siege of Vicksburg 1863
The Battle of Chattanooga 1863
Commander-in-Chief 1864
The Surrender of Gen. Lee 1865
