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The Ulysses S Grant Memorial in Washington D.C. General Grant was a general and commander of the Union Army in U.S. Civil War. He became the 18th president of the United States. This sculpture is of an artillery unit with canon and caisson. Three horses are in the team one with a broken bridal. They lose control when two horses are stopping and one keeps going. It was Dedicated in 1922. The photo is divided, half B&W and half color. #UlyssesGrantMemorial #U.S.CivilWar #NPS #NationalMall #GrantMemorial #sculpture
Kenneth J. Serfass portraying General U.S. Grant at the Lincoln Log Cabin "Harvest Frolic Fall Celebration" near Lerna, Illinois
On January 19, 1862, Confederate generals (Maj General Crittendon and Brig General Zollicoffer) and their troops lost badly at the Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky to the leadership of Union General George Henry Thomas (later known as the Rock of Chickamauga) and his outnumbered U.S. troops. Confederate troops were outmaneuvered and in the end fled the battle.
George Thomas, a native Virginian, had come to command at this battle straight from his U.S. training camp of Kentuckians at nearby Lebanon, about 60 miles to the northwest. Towards the end of the war, Thomas, the generals serving under him, and his troops would effectively destroy the Army of Tennessee as it tried to attack Nashville, a U.S.-occupied city since Ulysses S. Grant’s win at Fort Donelson. Donelson and Nashville would fall to the United States just three weeks after the Battle of Mill Springs.
The road on the left runs north and south. The cannon is facing north. During the battle, Confederate General Zollicoffer lost his life on the other side, north of the far fence at the extreme right of this image. Zollicoffer was surrounded by Kentuckian twang; unfortunately for him, those southern and Appalachian accents confusingly came from the mouths of U.S. troops. The surprised general found himself on the wrong side of the battle line.
Photograph shows a full-length portrait of Harriet Tubman looking directly at the camera with folded hands resting on back of an upholstered chair. Taken between 1871 and 1876. By Harvey B. Lindsley.
General William T. Sherman on horseback (his horse Duke) at Federal Fort No. 7, Atlanta, Georgia, September-November, 1864.
Photograph of the War in the West. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, General Sherman forced Hood to abandon the munitions center of the Confederacy. Sherman remained there, resting his war-worn men and accumulating supplies, for nearly two and a half months. During the occupation, George N. Barnard, official photographer of the Chief Engineer's Office, made the best documentary record of the war in the West; but much of what he photographed was destroyed in the fire that spread from the military facilities blown up at Sherman's departure on November 15.
A "Powder Monkey" with his hands tucked into his pants standing at ease in front of a large gun aboard the U. S. Steamer Pawnee, circa 1864-65. Cutlasses are visible on the wall in the background.
Three drummer boys of the 12th Regiment of the US Infantry at Fort Hamilton who have been in 9 battles of the rebellion. Circa 1862-63. By E. & H. T. Anthony & Co..
Union officers of the 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery pose beside thirteen-inch mortars, each weighing about 20,000 pounds, emplaced for a planned assault on Confederate forces at Yorktown on May 4, 1862. Photographed by James F. Gibson. Wet collodion glass-plate negative. This colourised version is a composit consisting of the two stereographs.
Worker repairing telegraph line, circa 1862-63. Photographed by Andrew J. Russell. Sky has been replaced in this version.
Military telegraph operators at headquarters, Petersburg, Virginia, August, 1864. Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865.
Sergeant John Clem of Co. C, 22nd Michigan Infantry Regiment in uniform, circa 1863-64, Nashville, Tennessee. Photographed by Morse's Gallery of the Cumberland.