Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States. He was a West Point graduate who led the Union Army during the Civil War. He served two terms as president but may be most well-remembered as having accepted Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House in 1865. This Ulysses S. Grant portrait is from a children’s book and makes the fierce general look somewhat grandfatherly to me.
Hill’s Album of Biography and Art is a wonderful vintage book by Thomas E. Hill. It was published in 1882. It was absolutely stuffed full of great illustrations. Some appear to be original to this book and I have spotted some in other publications of this period which would seem to mean they were either used by the publisher in multiple works or they were print foundry images.
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