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Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; [a] April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. In 1865, as commanding general , Grant led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War .
English: Grant from West Point to Appomattox, an 1885 engraving presumably intended to commemorate Grant's achievements after his death.A half-length portrait of Ulysses S. Grant is surrounded by nine scenes of his career from West Point graduation in 1843 to Lee's surrender in 1865.
1885 picture of Ulysses Grant and Julia Dent with their children and grandchildren. Grant was the first First Lady to write a memoir. However, she was unable to find a publisher. She had been dead almost 75 years before The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant (Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant) was finally published in 1975.
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1913: A new $50 gold certificate with a portrait of Ulysses Grant was issued. The style of the area below Grant's portrait was later used on small-sized notes. 1914: The first $50 Federal Reserve Note was issued with a portrait of Ulysses Grant on the obverse and an allegorical figure of Panama between a merchant and battle ship on the reverse.
There doesn't appear to be any shortage of non-montage (?) images of Grant in commons:Category:Ulysses S. Grant - in fact, this seems to be the only one. I note that currently the image has been blown up to 450px in Ulysses S. Grant, making the article look silly even on my uber-widescreen monitor. I can't imagine what it looks like on normal ...
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File:Ulysses S Grant by Brady c1870-restored (3x4 crop).jpg cropped 18 % horizontally, 18 % vertically, 33 % areawise using CropTool with lossless mode. File usage The following 19 pages use this file:
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