Image of a full-length portrait of American Civil War Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant on horseback with sword in an upraised hand riding across a battlefield leading soldiers on foot and on horses in a charge; dead and wounded soldiers on the ground amidst cannon shot. "Published by J. Childs, Philada."--text, bottom center margin.
"Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1864, by J. Childs, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsyla."--text, bottom right margin.
"J.L. Magee del."--text, bottom left margin.
"Hero of Belmont, Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, Inka, Corinth 2d., Hatchie, Port Gibson, Raymond, Jackson, Champion's Hill, Black River, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, Orchard Knob, Lookout, Mountain, Tunnel Hill, / Missionary Ridge, Chickamauga Station, Ringold, and the Great Battles of the Wilderness."--text, bottom center margin.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 60.96 x 52.71 cm (24 x 20 3/4 in.)
Generals--United States--Pictorial works Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885--Pictorial works Horses--Pictorial works Soldiers--Pictorial works United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc) Portrait prints. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Military Large Size American Civil War The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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