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Lieut. Genl. Ulysses S. Grant: General in Chief of the armies of the United States – Vintage Print

Lieut. Genl. Ulysses S. Grant: General in Chief of the armies of the United States, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] — antique lithograph
Lieut. Genl. Ulysses S. Grant: General in Chief of the armies of the United States, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907]. Antique lithograph from the Presidents collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Here Grant appears under the rank he received in March 1864, when Congress revived the grade of lieutenant general for him and he took command of all Union armies. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that sold inexpensive lithographs to a broad public, issued many portraits of Civil War commanders, and the hand coloring on this sheet was applied by hand to each impression. As general in chief, Grant directed campaigns across several theaters and made his headquarters in the field with the Army of the Potomac in Virginia. The record gives only a broad date range, so the print could have been issued during the war or long afterward, when Grant's image remained popular.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907]
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand-colored.
GenreLithographs Hand-colored 1850-1910.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3760
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,236 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-174858

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