Grant "Grant's Changing Expressions"

[rosefiend]

I was greatly amused by this series of pics from Miller's Photographic History of the Civil War. "Look how Grant's expressions are changing!" the writer tells me.

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"On the left we see a clearly elated man who is about to throw a cool party and everybody is invited! On the right, we see a deathly grim man who will send a general to burn down your town."

 

[rosefiend]

This image is called, "Grant shifting uncomfortably on a chair."

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[rbasin]

Looks like Grant just found a better barber

 

[Allie]

I was greatly amused by this series of pics from Miller's Photographic History of the Civil War. "Look how Grant's expressions are changing!" the writer tells me.

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"On the left we see a clearly elated man who is about to throw a cool party and everybody is invited! On the right, we see a deathly grim man who will send a general to burn down your town."

Yeah, that's funny. I'm not seeing it! Talk about projecting - to me the General in the first left shot doesn't look so much "almost amused" as like someone trying to process some slightly unpleasant news from his doctor.

 

[diane]

Looks like Grant just found a better barber

Lol! Think Julia found a better one! Grant was so satisfied with army life he even brought his old army cook to the White House. He could feed s-o-s to a thousand people...but state dinners required a little more refinement! I wouldn't be surprised if Grant also brought his army barber...who likely lasted as long as the army cook.

You know, you'd never get that deadpan series from Sherman. No two pictures of him are alike at all!

 

[KansasFreestater]

I was greatly amused by this series of pics from Miller's Photographic History of the Civil War. "Look how Grant's expressions are changing!" the writer tells me.

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"On the left we see a clearly elated man who is about to throw a cool party and everybody is invited! On the right, we see a deathly grim man who will send a general to burn down your town."

 

[Sid J.]

Looks like Grant just found a better barber

Certainly a better "stylist" than his 1861 guy.

 

[rbasin]

Lol! Think Julia found a better one! Grant was so satisfied with army life he even brought his old army cook to the White House. He could feed s-o-s to a thousand people...but state dinners required a little more refinement! I wouldn't be surprised if Grant also brought his army barber...who likely lasted as long as the army cook.

You know, you'd never get that deadpan series from Sherman. No two pictures of him are alike at all!

I think he also brought a young woman east to cook for his wife. He was a finicky eater.

 

[rosefiend]

I think he also brought a young woman east to cook for his wife. He was a finicky eater.

I think I remember from his Memoirs that he said he liked his beef almost burnt -- which didn't make his mess very popular with the other officers.

 

[rosefiend]

Yeah, that's funny. I'm not seeing it! Talk about projecting - to me the General in the first left shot doesn't look so much "almost amused" as like someone trying to process some slightly unpleasant news from his doctor.

I think just about all his pics look like that.

 

[diane]

I think he also brought a young woman east to cook for his wife. He was a finicky eater.

I'm not sure he was fussy but he did like certain things and missed them if they weren't on his table regularly. Julia sometimes complained he didn't eat well but she might have been mistaken - he was a lot more portly in later years! He also adopted the habit of eating kosher meat and some other kosher foods. He liked the humane rules of the Jewish religion about animals. (But he still burned his meat!)

 

[hanna260]

I think I remember from his Memoirs that he said he liked his beef almost burnt -- which didn't make his mess very popular with the other officers.

I believe that, that was a legacy of him being a tanners son. Apparently his fathers line of work tramautized him so much, that he hated the sight of blood- even on his meat!

I think just about all his pics look like that.

I think I once heard Grants rather... deadpan.... way of taking photos described like this: Ulysses S. Grant: Many Pictures, One Facial Expression.