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General Grant & his War Horse – Antique Wall Art

General Grant & his War Horse, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
General Grant & his War Horse, [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Horses 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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Ulysses S. Grant, the Union general who later became president, stands with the horse the title identifies as his war horse, a companion he rode through much of the Civil War. Stereographs like this one were printed as pairs of images meant to be viewed through a stereoscope, which gave viewers in the decades after the war a sense of standing beside famous figures. The caption card gives no date, and its details are unverified, so the exact year of the view is uncertain. Images of Grant were widely sold as souvenirs of the war's leading commander, and this one reflects that appetite for personal glimpses of him.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
NotesStereo by J.F. Jarvis' Stereoscopic Views. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. Index; Pres. Index; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 781 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-132803

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