1864 ULYSSES S. GRANT. Important, Undocumented Carte de Visite when Promoted to General. Commentary Splendidly illustrated with over 100

Splendidly illustrated with over 100 fine portraits and beautiful engravings of which 18 are fold-out pages with portraits of Union officers including Hancock

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1864 ULYSSES S. GRANT. Important, Undocumented Carte de Visite when Promoted to General. Commentary Splendidly illustrated with over 100A very scarce carte de visite of then Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, issued perhaps on the occasion of his promotion. Though we trace no other examples of this image or issuance of the image, it is dateable within a narrow time frame. Grant had previously been Command, then Major General. However, after the decisive victory at Chattanooga, Abraham Lincoln promoted him to a post held only two other times in American history, Lieutenant General,