Brigadier General U.S. Grant & Staff

[Mike Serpa]

LOC photo #3b37282

 

[James N.]

This photo from Oct., 1861, was the first view the North had of their then-new hero when he forced at surrender of Fort Donelson. as little as it looks like Grant to our eyes, it and others taken at the same time were used as the basis of the very first "popular" prints lauding Grant by such publishers as Harper's Weekly, Currier and Ives, M. W. Kellogg, etc. I have a poor and dog-eared Kellogg print of a mounted Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant made before his likeness was better-known that I can easily date to early 1862, because it shows this beard length and looks virtually nothing like him!

 

[diane]

That has got to be the worst picture ever taken of Grant. He was much more photogenic without the whisk broom under his chin!